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RE: Thuneau Allocator - do I get this straight?

A huge advantage to this digital crossover concept is the potential for audiophiles to either build for ones self or have built speakers with higher quality cabinet construction and drivers for far less money than current commercially available passive crossover speakers.

If you look at the pricing of hi quality speakers that use off the shelf drivers; a good portion of the price is in the R&D and typical mark up.

Typical passive speakers:
$2000.00 cabinet + $2000.00 worth of drivers + $200.00 worth of passive crossover parts = a $16,000.00 or more set of speakers.

Compared to:

Computer + State of the Art firewire 8 channel dac $4500.00 to $6000.00 + $3500.00 for 6 channels of very good Class D amps + $4k to $6k for DIY or commissioned built speakers using similar cabinet construction and drivers as $15K to $25K commercial speakers.
Add in room correction and you have a approximately $16K total system that would be hard to beat at any price.

Upgrade path; absolutely! Start with the Lynx card and lesser quality amps, maybe $1500.00 DIY or commissioned built speakers equal to a $6K retail speaker. Easy, fun path to the above type of state of the art system.

The computations or permutations are endless; end result better sound for less money.

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