What I have never figured out is why something as simple as a monitor control box cost a bloody fortune compared to say a a very basic mackie mixer. I would like to get a pre-sonus central sation here - especially if I get a second set of monitors - but they are expensive and have been seeing them come up second hand. Allways hopeful that the prices will plummet one day
Another intersting side of your comment blay - even good mixers sometimes cut serious corner on their monitoring sections - thats the one thing on my Yamaha 01x that really annoys me - the monitor outs are crap - unbalanced FFS!!!!
Otherwise its a really good solution for audio I/O and workstation hardware mixing needs.