Sound card opinions, Echo Layla vs M-Audio Delta

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So I'm looking at picking up a new sound card for my setup, it's time to
go multi-channel. The two cards I'm most interested in are a M-Audio
Delta 1010 and an Echo Audio Layla 3G. I've used both Echo and M-Audio
programs before and like their drivers and interface. Both have all the
features I'd need, though the Layla is marginally more attractive as it
has optical inputs and thus I don't need to use a converter for my
sampler, but it's not a big deal. They seem to come in at about the same
price these days.

So, has anyone worked with both cards and have an opinion on sound
quality, either subjective or objective?

Also, anyone have any other cards that are similar that you think I
ought to take a look at before committing? I'm interested in 6 analouge
i/o minimum and at least 1 S/PDIF i/o.

Thanks,

--Sycraft