I've had one for a year and a half and love it. I'll be buying another one after building my next DAW. As far as preamps, I think they're great. Mics I've used with it: Marshall MXL67G, CAD E100, Superlux drum mic set, SM57, SM58, lots of other lesser mics, DI boxes and DI from Line 6, DI from FX pedals and DI from cabinet heads. I think it's a great price for 8 preamps too although I wish it had phantom power for more than the first 4 and phase invert switches would be nice. I'm currently using a PIII 750MHz, 256M SDRAM, two 7200RPM hard drives, Win 98SE, Cakewalk PA 9 and lots of plugins. Next DAW will be P4, about 2.8MHz and Sonar.
I'd send you some samples but I'm on a dial up connection and it would take forever to upload.
DD