I'm surprised no one's mentioned the Yamaha PM-2000. I had to let mine go when I moved from Portland to Los Angeles and didn't have any space to install it into, plus I was moving into an ITB mixing setup. That being said, I had 3 great years with my PM2k, and I think it's an amazing sounding board, every aspect of it. The EQ, despite what some people say, is reallly awesome and extremely musical. You can literally boost any frequency as much as you want and it never sounds bad/harsh. You can crank the gain on the inputs and get beautiful saturation that sounds very similar to tape compression, I used that all the time. 6 aux sends switchable pre/post. Just a really amazing sounding board, and given the demos I heard of the ATB on the Toft website, the PM2k DESTROYS the ATB, and works for a lot more styles of music than just rock. The ATB just sounds really flat imo, whereas the PM2k has so much depth. The only thing I felt I needed to augment my PM2k with is some equalization that had more precision than what the PM2k has. I found that either the DBX 905 (amazing!) or the EQ built into Samplitude would be able to notch out annoying frequencies and for the broader EQing I would do on the PM2k.
Anyways, I just sold my PM2k in Los Angeles for $3400, in perfect condition. If the dialogue is about whether you should get a ATB or an Elan, I think it's obvious that the Elan is vastly superior (never heard one but I love the sound of the Neotek Elite). If you are on a budget however, I don't think the ATB can touch the PM2k.
Nicholas