lol - I downloaded the software and had a look-see.
Looks promising. I'm going to have to go out and copy down all my settings in the alpine currently and enter them into the software and see if it can handle all of the processing.
I'll be needing two of these things though so I can get 8 channels of output...which means each unit would only need to do 4 channels of processing, which means the processing power limitation might not be much of a concern.
So I'll be looking at around $830 for two of these things and then I've got to find somewhere to put them, then I'll have to custom make cables for XLR outputs...at 9v balanced out, that's 4.5v unbalanced...so not too much higher than the Alpine.
However, a great benefit I think I see is that for linearity purposes you can set adjustments based on volume level? I'm not 100% but it seems that way.
I'm planning on running a Hippo HiFi Bloat in this mix along with an analog POT...so it would look like this:
Computer -> USB out to Hippo DAC -> Analog Pot for volume on RCA out of Hippo DAC -> Analog RCA into Behringer -> process signal -> XLR out -> RCA into amplifiers
I'm going to have to see how the volume control before the Behringer is going to behave.
I'm not 100% about the D/A/D/A conversions in this chain though. Yes, I could get rid of the DAC and just run optical in according to some posts I'm reading, but then I can't have an analog volume control. Since the Behringer doesn't allow for volume control this is going to be very important. From my experiences, once you've set many mobos to optical out or you're running bit-perfect out, you cannot use any sort of volume control on the PC...naturally - because it is no longer bit-perfect at this point. So then, where would volume control take place?
This is a bit of a delima...
