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Originally posted by LfmC I've seen some nice FW sound cards while searching, but I don't have FW on my laptop and getting an additional FW adapter seems to be a bit risky. It just gives an additional component in the audio chain that could fail or cause problems in a bad time..

I actually bought a PCMCIA firewire card for use with a Firewire soundcard (MOTU), even though I had onboard Firewire. It was suggested since certain Firewire controllers behave differently and most onboard ones are crap anyway.