Yet More Soundcard Advice Wanted, Advice on choosing my soundcard please? Options

[PhilTrueman]

Greetings,

I just took delivery of my new G5 - waaahhoo! So the burning question is - which soundcard do I buy?

I'm thinking about a surround sound card both for audio use and for video work - the two on my list so far are:

M-Audio 1010LT
Terratec Phase 28

Does anyone have advice on the quality and reliability for either card?

Or - if I use the G5's optical output - what do I plumb that into?

I know a lot of people have bad things to say about M-Audio - but I ran with an Audiophile 2496 in my G4 and it did just fine (maybe not quite as good as my Audiomedia III but fine for me).

Any thoughts or advice - greatly received.

Thanks - PT