>I lurk on another forum just about Delta products and there are always tons of gripes about them.
It's not as clean as other, more expensive products, but considering the sources I have at my disposal to record with it, it ROCKS for the money.
I'm talking about mics in a non-studio environment (live venues or my home studio) or a wave-table synth that uses 16 bit samples.
The Delta 1010 is da bomb. That's why you'll see so many people here that own one.
If you don't have cleaner sources than that to start with, you're yanking your own chain and spending too much money getting a cleaner card than the 1010.