mikep, I'm actually upgrading from a Soundcraft ES-12... nothing great... it was within my budget at the time.
Thing I don't like about SOundcraft is that their sliders are so light! Even my Tapco board has a much better feel than the large SC boards.
Unfortunately, Tapco only makes small format mixers... so anything larger, I'm looking at Mackie already.
If SC had some weight in their sliders, I'd have gone for them instead since Audiophile is a lot closer to where I live and I buy most of my stuff from them anyway.