I personally have had great "luck" with Behringer equip. I've owned three very similar mixing boards. One a Behinger, One Mackie, and a Soundcraft. They all sounded good, and offer the same features. The biggest difference was the color of the knobs (which were located in the same places and the printing on the board itself; FX send/Aux send etc. Opening these up, I found the same circuit cards and components! Big wow, lol. I hope when I put these back together, I got the right card in the right board, or does it matter. Aren't the Midas pre-amps also class "A" Bi-FET's? Aren't most transformerless mic pre-amps class "A"? Oh well, I'm using a mixing board anyway, so what I need is is a bare bones a/d d/a interface (with midi of coarse). I know that back in the day, Midas was a big dog as far as mixing boards. I am considering going to a USB interface, as my old computer had PCI card slots and found some sound cards that allowed for full duplex multi-tracking. It seems that finally they perfected USB interfaces. Some of the stuff out there seems way too pricy and it looks like I'll be going with either, Behringer, M-audio or Tascam. I'm a cheap kinda guy too. I prefer Samplitude over any of the free "LE" DAW's out there. By "free", I mean the junk they throw in when you buy a piece of equipment. I said I was cheap. YUUP! I would love to have the bucks to spend $2500+ on a 3.0 USB interface. Now I just need to sort out the junk from the good stuff. One Mfg. advertises a "4X4" interface that you can only stream 2 channels out at a time through the USB! FOR REAL! Behringer, in my opinion, is leading edge as far as engineering. Cheap, cause it's produced in China. My main concern is the end result, and how to get there with the least amount of hassle. A big issue with almost all mfgs. in this digital medium is customer support. Seems the technology is growing faster than the technicians. So, Why is Steinburg more expensive than Behringer? Why is Pro-tools more expensive than Samplitude? Is it the name? Is it that being the " industry standard" is pricey-er? Is coke really better than rc-cola?