I know this is an old thread but these cards are very nice sounding indeed,
if you can get it working you will be rewarded with a warm detailed sound,
the only down side is latency under a windows XP system was a little
high for me,
Latency was big because WinXP.
it has a very good sounding efx system built in,
the breakout box makes it much more usable,i used to use a sw1000xg
also,its a good system using both together and was very flexible.
DS2416 has interesting features to use with sw1000xg, I remember that
there was somekind 8-channel fx-mixer program for combo, but it was only Win98 and
sadly pages of that and editor are gone and I didn't get programmers name.
When I went m-audio after it was a big downgrade in audio quality,
however I had better latency so it was swings and roundabouts.
I still own both the sw1000xg and ds2416.
Put them to Mac...Cubase and Logic support it, but not two ds2416 cards, although drivers should support it even with SW1000XG.
And one thing: SW1000XG has to be always clock master, if somebody knows how to make DS2416 clock master with SW1000XG, please tell me how.