Paul Davis wrote: > > we didn't have to beg for specs on the trident cards, most > crystal-based cards, the RME cards, the ice1712 cards and on and on.
Some hw manufacturers could call ice1712 "open source", as the specs are open, it's reasonably priced (cheap) and performs very well. It created a whole new range of reasonably priced multichannel soundcards! You could use your analogy to ice1712 and ask "who would use ice1712" as anyone can take it can create cheap soundcard? I think many manufacturers are doing better than ever thanks to that chip! I could easily create a soundcard using ice1712. I even considered to do so. - Jussi Laako -- PGP key fingerprint: 161D 6FED 6A92 39E2 EB5B 39DD A4DE 63EB C216 1E4B Available at PGP keyservers
