[ediblecastle]

Quality: 8
solidly built little fella. I can only compare it to a few other audio interfaces I've used in the past (an old USB Tascam USsomething, m-audio mobile pre, a tapco Link.USB and a cheap behringer mixer) and it sounds much better to those rightly so, cheaper, interfaces.

Reliability: 10
I've had no problems with reliability, though I do only use it for the sole purpose of getting my sounds into my computer. I haven't exactly stretched it.

Overall Rating: 7
I'm not sure how hot the preamps are in other firewire audio interfaces. But on the firebox they are very quiet. You'll need another mic pre if you're using a dynamic mic through this. Which I sadly wasn't aware of at the time of buying. Works great with my RØDE NTK condenser mic though!

The headphones output is very loud. the knob turns all the way from 1-11 (heh) but I never go above 2-3.

One other problem I had and didn't notice until I tried using both the front INs was that on my model, the 2nd input has an annoying high pitch whine noise. Reading the Pre-sonus forums, this doesn't seem to be the norm - with a few cases of it here and there.