> I've seen so many ads for (regular, home consumer-grade) PCI
> soundcards with dedicated DSP's that I lost count.
Just because it's there doesn't mean it's being used. There was a special mp3 player written for Delfina Plus for example, which sent mp3 data to the sound card's DSP for decoding. But you could just as well use the "unaccelerated" mpega version, decode in CPU and only send the raw audio data to the sound card for direct output without additional processing on the sound card.
If someone writes a similar special library for your card's DSP, then things could be different, but I'm not sure that AHI has any such DSP support built in. I'd love to see something like this happen.
