[midKnight]

Whoops, sorry about that Bak, I should have been more specific..

I'm using a homebuilt pc (as all of mine are)
Asus N32 SLI mobo
Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2 gb of ram
m-audio 2496 card
Nvidia geforce 8600gtx (total overkill for an audio station)
windows xp pro sp2 - gutted to remove pretty much all unnecessary stuff
1TB sata (over 2 500gb drives - 1 OS/program drive, 1 data drive)
Sonar 7PE
lots of VST's

I use the latest m-audio written ASIO drivers. I've gotten lousy results with the WDM driver. The m-audio drivers under windows xp are very stable and mature.

As I don't profess to be a "sonic" expert, like most people I base my judgments on my experiences. So far, with my recordings, I swear I can "hear" a difference in audio quality between the stuff at 16/44 and 24/96. I maybe fooling myself, but I "perceive" there to be a noticable difference in quality, and that's really what counts right, a person's perception?

-N