Mbox Vs. Digi 002 Rack Options

[JPSpecial]

I'm wondering which audio interface would be better for my needs. I'd like to record voice and acoustic guitar using two different mics and afterward doing some harmony vocals and perhaps a second guitar track and some bass. The real problem I want to avoid is major latency. Will I have substantially less with the firewire digi 002r than with the mbox. Some users have said that the latency with mbox is not a problem while others have said it is a true annoyance. Just wondering what some of you users of either audio interface have to say. Also, how many audio inputs can the digi 002r take at a time? I know the mbox can only take two, which of course is pretty limited.

[PristineRec]

I've never used an Mbox, but I have never had latency issues with my Digi002 rack. It has 4 mic preamps and (I think) 4 more 1/4" inputs on the back panel. It can also bring in two chanels of S/PDIF (which is where my outboard tube preamp connects) and has a lightpipe input which could bring in 8 more channels optically, if you had an outboard pre with the correct output.
If you are in fact recording all of the instruments one at a time, you can caorrect for any latency afterwards by nudging the waveform of any trucks back or forward in time to sync them up at mixdown. That's one of the great things about DAWs, it's very easy to slide channels back and forth in time to correct timing, or even to create funky effects.