Pro sound card for use in bootcamp? Need suggestion!

[bowzer]

Hey, so I picked up a Focusrite Saffire and as others have said - theres problems under bootcamp. I've tried all the suggestions I could get, now I'm at a point where things will play ok, but they aren't playing "correct".

Example, here's a track i noticed in one of my songs sounding weird, this is what it sounds like when i export using the default soundcard on my imac:

http://bowzer.net/temp/testbell-imacdefault.mp3

here's what it sounds like with the saffire:
http://bowzer.net/temp/testbell-saffire.mp3

the peak of the bell sound gets clipped on the saffire :S

i dont trust i'm getting proper sound from the saffire. it seemed a bit hacky that i had to get all these patches and mess with firewire latency settings to even get the thing to play without crackling.

SO. Who can recommend me a pro soundcard they know works 100% under bootcamp? All I need is xlr or 1/4" inputs, and xlr or 1/4" outputs.

[bowzer]

im thinking it might be a firewire issue with bootcamp, as i've googled and it seems lots of people have issues with that combination.

any thoughts on these sound cards? maybe usb is the better route?

alesis io2
http://www.alesis.com/io2

mbox2 mini
http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?ite ... langid=100

[bowzer]

incase anyone is wondering, the alesis io2 is working for me under bootcamp