[John L Rice]

"Ken Winokur" wrote in message
oups.com...
I know
quite a few people using the PCI 324 and everybody's very satisfied.

Ken Winokur


Sorry, I meant to say that I know lots of people using the PCI 424
card ... This is a tried and true system - millions sold (kind of
like hamburgers).

Ken

That's what I hear from Mac users. On the PC platform it can be hit or miss
though.

I was a MOTU user for years on a PC with Cubase. I started with the original
2408/PCI-324, added a 308 and later jumped up to a 2408 MkIII/PCI-424 and a
HD192. I thought all of the hardware sounded great, especially the HD192,
and was made really well, except for the noisy fan in the HD192 (ggrrrr).
Unfortunately I was constantly plagued with driver problems and I had
finally had enough (the last time I called tech support the script reading
noob was the straw that broke this camel's back!).

I sold it all and got a Lynx AES16 card and some Lavry Blue converters. Yes,
a massive pile of cash but it sounds awesome and the Lynx card installed in
about 15 minutes (that includes the time it took to open up the computer
install the card, install the drivers and close the computer back up) and it
has worked ever since without a problem! :-)

At least up though the time I was still using MOTU, they seemed to have a
bad attitude towards PC users and just supported them begrudgingly because
they wanted to sell more product. They didn't even seem to care enough to
design their drivers to work the way drivers work in the PC world. (to
install the drivers FIRST, THEN install the physical card was dumb IMHO!)

For PC users Lynx and RME seem to really know and care about what they are
doing.

John L Rice