How much is this gonna cost?
1. It still baffles me why the M-Audio Revolution is the only sound card with linear stereo upsampling (88.2KHz, 176.4KHz). Why put all this massive amount of money in hardware and not have the software function to limit resampling errors? (Or maybe its just for bragging rights and not function?)
2. I'm not sure why they used the PCM 1792A DAC. For $.65 more they could get the vanilla 1792, which measures at 132DB SNR. The 1792A is sort of the "beta" DAC that nobody uses anymore, or maybe that's why they used it (old DACs in storage somewhere?). The 1796 costs half as much, and daisy chaining a pair of 1796s will be cleaner than a single 1792A.
But I guess, marketing over function, as usual...
You notice it only says "10 to 90KHz?" without any frame of reference? I bet you could rate your onboard sound card as 10 too 90KHz to, the tolerance range would just be wider/worse. Again, marketing numbers. It would be impressive if it measured flat to 18KHz, most pre-amps will start dipping at 16KHz.anyone??? 90kHz?
4.5times human hearing???
<10Hz? uh? headphone driver going that low accurately? very few.
Then again, it wouldn't matter if you used crap speakers anyway, and multimedia speakers are more less, crap. It's like those guys that drop $1000 to $1500 on SLI then play on a $200 22" TN LCD monitor.
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