A note from a new UA5 owner (opened the box about 4 hours ago)...
I just bought a JB3 (or NJ3 depending) and needed an Edirol. I debated long and hard about buying one for about $250 off of Ebay or some other Audio store, because I thought the Digi-Mod would be easy to do myself, and I still think it would be.
However, I've decided that it is worth the extra $100 (the DigiMod Oade UA5 was $365 delivered) because OADE MODed UA5s KEEP THEIR WARRANTY AND YOU CAN GET PREAMP MODS (Warm or Presence) FROM OADE LATER.
You cannot get new mods on a non-Oade machine... And if you do the mod yourself, you just killed your warranty...
Me? It is worth the extra $100 for piece of mind... And if the Digi-Mod is broke, Oade will fix it. If I screw up the mod doing it myself, I have a $250 paperweight...
Good luck, buy Oade...
Terry