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The Fireface is pretty sick. I use to use it with Pro Tools M-Powered via ADAT optical giving you 8 Channels up to 48K (which most people don't record higher than 48K anyways) and then you get the conversion of the Fireface instead of Digi's, which some people think is better than any of the LE interfaces. Probably def better than the Mbox family converters.

And you could go back out ADAT or SPDIF back into the Fireface and hook up your Reference monitors there and use the Fireface DA convertion for playback too. The RME software mixer is pretty flexible too if you ever need to hook up other devices into the Fireface it's easy.

Lightbridge would work fine for this, but so would the 002, 003 and just about any M Audio device that has ADAT in/out on it. FW1814 would work too.

Sounds like you got good advice. But of course, you don't have to use the Fireface at all once you have a Digi interface. You could sell it and get a 003 and call it a day if you're only going to use Pro Tools from now on.