I have been thinking of purchasing a "real" sound card for sometime now
after living with a SoundBlaster Audigy for sometime. So I have two
questions for everyone;

1) It seems that the Firewire and/or USB sound interfaces are getting
to be quite a bit more popular than the internal soundcards due to the
distance that can be put between the interface and the main computer
which limits interference. Is there a downside of getting a mobile
interface such as the M-Audio Firewire Audiophile vs an internal card
such as the m-audio deta 44? The areas that I expect to see a large
improvement in when compared to my audigy are latency (current is like
100+ms), ability to use real time Sonar effects and soft synths (related
to latency), and ability to independently operate at least 2 stereo
outputs from Sonar (this features comes and goes on my audigy).

2) If I do go with a Firewire interface, I should purchase another
Firewire card since the only firewire port on the computer is on my SB
audigy. Are certain Firewire card brands better at running these mobile
interfaces or is the CompUSA special as good as any other?

3) Third question (yeah, I lied), Anyone see any problems if I purchase
a mobile interface and keep the SB audigy installed for games and other
non-pro audio sound support?

Thanks for everyone's ideas,
Andrew V. Romero