Hi Guys, I've been lurking here since the beginning and have very little experience with video technology but I have experience with high end audio hardware.
The kind of people who care that much about making it sound "warm" and "full" already have spent €5k on a microphone and another €3k on a preamp for it. If you can create a sound card that can accurately digitise that then you would be on to a winner. A multi input/multi output system with high end A/D converters that sample at 24bit/192kHz is state of the art atm and I can't see anyone needing much more in the pro/semipro audio world. The audiophiles who say they tell the difference between a song at 96kHz and one at 192kHz because of the ripple effect from the filter have a completely different set of requirements. They just want the highest numbers possible on the box. The studio market is pretty big and has fairly deep pockets for something useful, so I can't see you having trouble selling it if you get it reviewed by the right people. One concern is that you will need to build a breakout box for your A/D converters or else rely on someone else's converter box and just support something like ADAT lightpipe I/O but at that stage you have pushed yourself downmarket unless you add something to differentiate yourself like a DSP farm. Regards, Paul Mullen. On Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:22, Jan Knutar wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 02:53, Timothy Miller wrote: > > So, what do you all think of this idea? Comments? Suggestions? > > Discussion! :) > > The part that audiophiles care most about is in the analog parts, isn't it? > And making it sound "warm" and "full", and whatever other adjectives that > they use, would be quite a challenge, one that wouldn't be solvable by > just upgrading the FPGA mask?... > > I have no idea either. I just know I prefer the sound of my AWE32 over > the SoundBlaster PCI 128, and prefer the sound of my SparcStation 5's > audio chip pushing audio through its internal speaker, compared to my > cheapo PC with AC97 and fancy external Creative speakerset... > > Seems more like magic than science, in order to get it right :) > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
