ok, Max, I don't have personal experience with TerraTec products. From what I know in general the overall quality of their pro products is very good. I can't tell anything about consumer products at all. <BR>Here's the deal thou.... you need to make sure that the features of PHASE 28 is what you personally need and actually are going to use. I mean do you really need midi-interface included in your card? Do you really need balanced analog in/outs (are you going to get/use balanced cables and use balanced in/outs on your other eqipment (mixer/effects/recorder etc). Now if you don't need these features, then you simply are going to pay extra cash for nothing <IMG SRC="
http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discu ... /happy.gif" ALT=":)"> <BR>So as alternative, I would recomend to you at least to take a look at M-Audio D410 24 Bit 96kHz Digital Audio System. Well, not much for a "system" <IMG SRC="
http://www.interruptor.ch/cgi-bin/discu ... /happy.gif" ALT=":)"> there...heeh heh , but it has about what you may need (2 ins/ 8 outs unbalanced, digital in/out, no midi interface). I've seen this card on sale for $89 here: <A HREF="
http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-MII-D410.html" TARGET="_blank">D410 at AMS</A>. <BR>Now, here's a nice positive review about one of TerraTec cards, well, something positive for you to read about quality of TerraTec: <A HREF="
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/reviews/ ... rratec.asp" TARGET="_blank">EWX24/96 review</A> <BR>Also, when buying any computer hardware, you really need to make sure that it is 100% going to work with your computer system and to make sure that the hardware supports your software , or your software supports the hardware your are buying ...which ever way you want to look at it. <BR>So here as example, I am going to just past a somebody's bad experience with Phase 28. But this does not mean that the card is bad, but you may have some specific issues here and there, and then the quality of technical support of the compony becoms important. <BR>Now, how do you know? - You don't, untill you actually deal with it. <BR>Here's the example: <BR><FONT COLOR="ff0000">"buy from this company at your own risk!" <BR>I purchased 2 of these cards last summer to do film scoring work with Gigastudio. I specifically wanted them for the digital outs. It took me 4 months to find out that the digital outs are not supported for gigastudio, and I only found out because I tracked down the product rep at the LA NAMM show. They will not respond to emails. I finally worked out a deal with them (through Fostex help here in the US) to upgrade me to the next card that would support Gigastudio as advertised. That was two months ago. They never sent the cards as promised and will not respond to email. It is inexplicable to me....I\'m an industry pro and it\'s very bad business in my opinion. I finally decided my only recourse is to spread the word....buy from this company at your own peril. If you have problems or the product does not perform as advertised, you're screwed....</FONT> <BR>again, as you see, some people get into specific situation and get very very mad, when they can't figure something out or can't find any help. <BR>You should not rely on such "reviews", but don't forget, that facing problems is just the way it goes with computer software/hardware... <BR> <BR>good luck, <BR>/respects, <BR>/Mike Zee aka Dr ZEE <BR><A HREF="
http://www.mzentertainment.com/dub_lab.htm" TARGET="_blank">ZEE DUB LAB</A>