> No problem at all, and thank you. Keep in mind that the retail price > I'm going after for these audio cards is in the thousands, even for > the economy model. I want a design that's equivalent to tens of > thousands of dollars in pro equipment that we sell for only a few > thousand due to the economy of the open source model.
From the feedback I got on the Linux Audio Developers list I don't think thats going to happen. In summary: High end pro audio stuff costs thousands. Not 10's of thousands. And most of that is not in the sound card. A pro setup can be produced with currently available sound cards that range in $600 - $1300. That said there _was_ interest in a fully open sound card but only in the same feature/dollar range as whats available. People said they would help but I got very little back in the way of proposed specs. Low latency seemed important. There was specific interest in firewire and some interest in USB2 audio cards. Audio accelerated or "DSP" cards have fallen out of favor in all the but most specific of apps. A dual Athlon64 or Opteron seup can do native signal processing fast enough to handle most everything. -- Richard A. Smith
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