Doermann;328001 Wrote: > What you mean by everything downstream exactly?
Besides the processor there is logic, oscillators, and the s/pdif and/or DAC outputs. So the system has to be designed from the start for 96KHz to work, and you may be surprised that doubling the data rate is a major design exercise, above and beyond throwing money at a faster CPU and higher speed grade grade parts. As an example Transporter does in hardware (programmable logic) some things that SB3 does in software, necessitating more logic, in order to offload some CPU time and IO load. It's not just a marketing driven thing, but you really do have to be careful where you allocate BOM dollars. Although you could (correctly) observe that any _one_ of the features in the higher-end product could have been added to the lower-end product for $X, there is no more demand for 96KHz than there is for, say, a word clock input, so the only sane design choice is to put the features that everyone needs (or the features that are free to implement) in the lower-cost product, and then package all the more specialized features into a higher end product. Otherwise you'll never meet the price point for the high volume product in the first place, because all customers would be shouldering the cost of those features, whether they use them or not. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50860 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
