They CAN, but usually DON'T. In the meanwhile, 24bit vs 8 bit...
Well, they typically do, have done so for quite a while. I was just curious what audio standards you were thinking of, and how that related to a 7 year old AGA demo.
BTW - You're a big fan of Jen's hardware, SO what kind of sound improvements do you get when you install one of Individual's accelerators?
Jen? You mean Jens? No, I am not a big fan of his accelerators, what gave you that impression? Only ACA card I have is the A1221, which I bought for hacking. I just found it ironic that after all the moaning and whining about price of iComp cards, the "team" now find themselves in the situation where their cards are just as expensive, and are likely to cost even more in the future with the V1200. It is all fair though, cost is not so much the parts as it is production.
Ah, but they offer so much more, you say, and refer to all that may or may not come in the future. Remember what Gunnar has said about that.
Oh yeah...none.
Well, his products tend to come with "fast clock port" to which you can attach USB controller that gives you access to audio equipment, such as sound cards, hardware decoders, hardware encoders, mixers and MIDI equipment.
That would be 1 vs 0, in favor of the Vampire! :hammer:
Depends entirely on your use case.
As I may have mentioned, the major reason for me being less than satisfied about the FPU situation is exactly audio processing. How do you deal with floating point data, like audio, when you don't have floating point unit? Rounding up, rounding down, compromise on speed and quality all the time.