> Even though there is enough expertise to design the hardware and write the > drivers for such a thing in my household; I have much smaller projects that > I can barely keep up to getting done. I'd prefer to let the comercial folks > do this. By far, they have the economy of scale(and sale) in their favor. > > But the thought of doing is very seductive as an intellectual exercise. for buil one ok, it was more in the this way I thought about it, intellectual exercise... but maybe some people know some groups that commercialize this kind of soundcard (any kind of i/o), it's just that as we fight for free software and to work and show how to use free audio software, I give advice & help to set a lot of audio box (studio, live, radio...) and I just think about propose the best, free, open device for audio (soundcard to start)... I use a lot of soundcards (u24 egosys, some M-audio, RME, some Echo...etc) But if I know a compagny in the free software spirit, I would use and recommand their soundcards ;-) cheers julien APODIO : http://www.apodio.org (Liveaudiolinux in a box?!)