Greg Reddin wrote: You can't really complain for US $300. It's an amazing card for the price. The bundle of wires hanging out of the back of the computer can be cumbersome but with some extention cables you can pretty much build your own I/O rack or spend the extra cash and get the 1010 which is the same card with a hardware rack already built. The integrated mic preamps are a nice feature. It basically turns a PC into a small mixing board with the advantage of, y'know, all that software you can use to get things in and out of the card. -lee

Florin Andrei wrote: Actually, the 1010LT does have two balanced and preamped inputs that are switchable via jumpers on the card. That has been enough for my usage. If one wants better preamps, there are plenty of non-preamped channels in which to ulitize an external one. For that matter, the built-in channels 1 & 2 preamps can be bypassed (I think). I agree that cards are quite different however. The circuit layout is completely different. In fact, they never should have kept the model numbers similier. It leads to confusion that the only difference is the additional breakout box the 1010 has. There is a LOT of difference, but the 1010LT is a fine card. Even with my home-built breakout box the card is dead silent! I really REALLY have to crank up the inputs to see noise on the input meters. At least twice the level my SBLive value shows noise. Jim Hines [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]