Replacing my Audiophile 2496

I'd recheck the drivers, give them a bit longer.. ask them to confirm they are doing an update.. IF they can be bothered to reply..

they seem to be updating a lot of drivers at the moment.

my experience.. I've dumped m-audio because of their slowness in updating drivers.. and their support or lack of has REALLY put me off them as a company.. they have had 3 strikes regarding my business.

I bet they knew full well there was issues with the ozone (and other) drivers.. but left folk without drivers for 3 months.. I noticed I had issues with it after a win7 updates.. they updated the drivers 2 weeks AFTER I bought new replacements.. so that made matters even worse.

I can tell you to discount the saffire 6 as that doesn't have spdif. (I have one, so I don't mean that in a negative light)

the cakewalk unit does have spdif..  what else do you want, many outputs ? inputs?
and budget

if you wanna switch it between pc's then USB is well handy.. also new interface pci-e is the new flex. but you can still get pci things also.

One of their managers posted on the forums something like "We'd like to do the 64 bit drivers, but it's a monumental task".

He should have added, "and we will make more money selling the latest interface than by supporting the obsolete one. Oh and you can be sure the old one will be obsolete without new drivers. And we fully expect old customers to forget about the fact that we only support our cheap hardware for a couple of years and new customers not to find out until their new hardware gets old too."

If you are lucky you spent less than $200.00 on your audiophile. In the fast-moving world of obsolescence-by-design, a lot of people have been burned for a lot more when the hardware manufacturer decided they had spent enough on keeping their old stuff working in today's modern world of the future.

I remember early MS DOS when there were no general driver models, and each application developer had to write the drivers for each peripheral that it would interface with. If you wanted to use a certain printer with a word processor, the word processor had to be written with that printer driver. We really need a new level of abstraction in driver models so that peripherals are no longer so tightly bound to the OS.

On one hand I have had mine since 03, so I do feel like I got my money's worth out of it.

If the delta series was actually a legacy product, I could cut them some slack.  But you can't call a product 'legacy' if you are still selling them.  There is simply no excuse to be selling a product that does not work with the latest operating system after it has been out for more than a year and a half.