Recording Magazine quotes Darwin Grosse May 2006 "Focusrite engineers took a look at the digital card, and must have thought, 'I you have an ADAT input on this machine, why not use it for something more than clocking?' Wise folk these engineers, and they offered an option giving you eight channels of D/A conversion as a bonus feature. Eight channels of audio can be piped to the OctoPre and will appear at the analog outputs. This can really come in handy for effects sends, surround outputs or routing digital channels to an analog mixer. Hats off to Focusrite for this innovation" "As we found with the original OctoPre, these preamps provide fast transient response, making them a great choice for drums, percussion and acoustic guitar. The 60dB of gain provided on each channel was sufficient to work with every mic in my collection, and the highpass filtering was great for removing mic stand thumps and floor rumble" "The OctoPre LE offers tremendous bang for your buck, especially when you add the digital I/O card (and use the 8-channel ouputs options). The layout is convenient, and both metering and front-panel inputs jacks made for easy integration into my recording system" "...you're going to get a set of great mic pres at an outstanding price."