This board is the hub of my home vocal studio, where I work as a professional Voiceover Artist.The ZED-14 is an easy way to route my inputs between my DAWs and other outputs (headphones at the recording desk and in the booth, studio monitors, etc.). The board also has the input and output flexibility to allow me to run Skype mix-minus set ups, telephone VOIP patches, etc., so that clients can listen to and comment on my work in real time while I'm in the booth, but I can exclude their inputs from the Mains output, so their comments don't make it to my DAW master tracks.The USB interface is solid and doesn't seem to introduce any problematic latency (though I monitor directly from the mains output, not from the USB Return). I also don't notice any digital artifacting and, in fact, think that it does as well at analog-digital conversion as my much more expensive Lavry converter that's a dedicated box in my signal chain.The entire board has an extremely solid and professional feel to it. Granted, I'm a VO artist and engineer and don't tote it from gig to gig or hammer on it during multi-feed recording sessions, but I have a lot of confidence in the durability and longevity of the board.The mic preamps are good, but not great. For a board in this price range, they're solid and should be fine for most gigging musicians and basic home recording. They're very quiet with a very, very low noise floor and good responsiveness. The gain controls, 100Hz Hi-pass filter, and 3 band EQ all perform their jobs, and the sweepable mid-frequency EQ is a really nice feature.Unfortunately, for what I do, the preamps don't have the chops to deliver on powerful Voiceovers with top-shelf tube mics. I can't hold that against the ZED in the rating, though. It's not billed as a full signal chain solution; in order to get the sound I need, I have to run through a channel strip with a compressor, more powerful pre, de-esser/limiter, and a more surgical EQ.Overall, this board is a critical part of my studio and sound chain. It's flexibility allows me to offer client services that other boards don't, and until I started pairing it with boutique tube mics it met all of my daily needs.