The Edirol is about 3x the price of an M-Audio Revolution and almost $100 more than an ESI Juli@ which does 24/192 in and out with multichannel out and a sn around 110db. Cheap internals too near a high power vid card or a brand x PSU can have troubles but there are pro internal cards costing big bucks and they don't suck. While Ray may record shows with jb3,He may want to record his band in 24 bit from sbd to soundcard,or digitize analogs via line in. The UA-5 would be tempting if preamps and phantom power were needed. I don't get how a good M-Audio,Terratec or ESI could claim a SN ratio over 100db if it got a bunch of noise once put in a puter. How else could it be run-or measured?