I don't think I would buy the UAudio board if I were to do it again. 1. The plugs are expensive - $150 - $250 EACH,on top of the price of the board 2. Unlike AU plugs which can be used on multiple computers and your powerbook, these are staying with the one computer that uses the board 3. Remarkably few instances of the plugs will choke the card. 4. There are a couple of decent compressors, but the channel strip, distortion, etc are crap. The plate reverb is superceded by Logic's own convolution verb which has plate emulations. I think if i were to do it again, I would get the Blue Tubes bundle or Sonalksys or maybe the Waves gold bundle. > My most used plugins are Cambridge, Fairchild, 1176, LA2A, Precision  > Limiter. I suspect I would use the Precision EQ a fair bit if I had it. > > At least some of these are extra $$$. I guess I'm saying the Ultra is  > worth it. This list is very quiet. You'll get a lot more info &  > opinions over at <http://www.chrismilne.com/uadforums/>; >