I know the obvious answer is the Benchmark. However, given that everything has the sample rate converted on the Benchmark to the rate that best suits its DA conversion stage, and the signal is then papmpered to sounds great, does this mean that the Benchmark might gloss over some problems with the recording. Is the sound on the Apogee more honest?

anyone have any feedback on using these with a PC system? i will be running it on the following machine:

alienware 7700
P4 3.2
2GB DDR2
915 chipset
geforce 6800
2 firewire ports
4 usb 2.0 ports

would like to run Sonar 4 unless some sees why i should get Cubase sx3? i already have Sonar 3 and was going to upgrade...