Yes, I have read that as well as many other "reviews" some funded by advertising dollars and special deals.

All I write is exactly how I find a bit of gear. I try to avoid the "rose coloured glasses" concept and the "everythings a keeper" type rhetoric.

It was the same with the MS, thus as it is with the Edirol M10.

I probably have a slightly higher intolerance to extraneous noise than you do.

Plus, looking at the speaker systems you are running, you obviously do not need much higher levels than half way on the channel gain pots. As I said the noise increases substantially past half way.

This mixer is marginally above the Behringers at this size for noise levels. In all other areas it is quite good. The RAC was not too bad.

Reasonably accurate, but nothing I could not do with a multiband EQ unit. That plus experience in being able to closely guess how rooms are going to sound.