1814 Hands down. You can use M-Powered with it, not to mention expendability via lightpipe. I currently own an M-Box 2 and a Projectmix I/O (which from what I understand is exactly the same thing as the 1814 as far as audio goes) and the pre's on the Projectmix are noticeably cleaner than the M-Box 2 pre's. The M-Box pre's are extremely noisy imho, and are only useable in a small range of gain between when they become unbearably noisy and where the signal has a practical amount of gain. Not to mention the latency on the M-Box is huge. Like over 70ms I think, but don't quote me on that.

I am so done with Digidesign.

1814 all the way!!! I'm already using it with octane preamp and it's a cool setup for the price!! P.S. Have a good firewire interface card will help avoiding problem...