James HE said:
Dead Poet- how are the pre amps on the staudio? How solid is the construction of the box? Maybe tricky questions to answer, I'm just looking to see if the st-audio stuff is "cheap" or if it's just "cheap" if you know what I mean. 
Well, I'm very happy with it.
I don't know how familiar you are with ST-Audio's product line. They have a sound card (DSP24) with a capability of 10 in - 10 out + several break-out boxes. The ADC&DAC2000 is the cheapest with two pre's and unbalanced line ins/outs (8 analog, 2 digital via optical or coax S/PDIF or AES/EBU!, talk about choices!)
The pre's are ok (only had the chance to ocmpare to Behringer MX-series mixer). If you turn the gain past 2 o'clock they get noisy, but that's where most of the gain lies.
Construction is good. I read some newsgroups and there is like a 1% of customers with real (fysical) problems.
Solid metal body and 3 metre cable so you can keep computer or other interference out.
This card is a bit picky about your chipset (mostly AMD problems pre VIA KT266a related) but latency is great.
I'm planning on expanding my home studio with a real mixing board and a standalone recorder, so the STAudio will be a good editing machine and effect processor while saving up for real outboard gear (.5ms latency at 96kHz so usable for realtime monitoring).
Convertors in the ADC&DAC2000 are the same as in the delta 1010, those in their 3000 box should be better (8 pre's, adat & balanced in/out, wordclock, the whole shabam at about $1000 with the DSP24 card)
Up to four cards can be fitted in one system and I read about a guy succesfully having a 3-card studio (24 simultaneous in, +20 phone mixes)...
Goes a long way for a relatively unknown budget card. Those Taiwanese engineers supplies us
Herwig
