Extigy - any good?

I want to buy my son a sound card to use with Cubase - he wants to record
multi-track wav and MIDI. Is the Soundblaster Extigy USB any good - how does
it fare when considering latency when multi-tracking?

How does it compare with the Audigy Platinum kit?

Any useful comments welcome.
TIA.

I've heard some good things about it, but the thought of using the USB
scares me. As for the Platinum, the Original Audigy could tend to be a bit
noisy, and it really records all the sources at once. And if you plan to
upgrade the card, you will need to chuck the Platinum drive because it will
only work with SB Live or Audigy. I know with my new Audigy 2 that I have,
I can get 3 seperate inputs, or 6 mono inputs.. Just a thought.
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> I want to buy my son a sound card to use with Cubase - he wants to record
> multi-track wav and MIDI. Is the Soundblaster Extigy USB any good - how
does
> it fare when considering latency when multi-tracking?
>
> How does it compare with the Audigy Platinum kit?
>
> Any useful comments welcome.
> TIA.
>
>