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From: wille@frith.msu.edu (Jeffrey Wille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 8 Channel Audio Digitizer (Market Survey)
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Date: 3 Jul 90 17:52:46 GMT
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I am planning on making an 8-bit audio digitizer for my senior project.  
I thought that if I put some extra work into that I might be able to
sell it.  I really can't compete with companies like PerfectSound,
so I thought I would make my product better, I'd make an 8 (or maybe
16) channel digitizer.

If I made the box so that it would communicate over the parallel port,
it would be Amiga specific, because most parallel ports are 
unidirectional.  I could put 256K of RAM in the box and put a serial
port on it, and then it could be used by PC's and Mac's.  However,
that would make it slow, preclude real-time processing and limit the 
sampling time.

I figure that I could make these boxes and sell them for about $200-$300.
If I thought that I could sell at least 8 or so of them, it would 
probably be worth my while.  I could also take 12 or 16 bit samples,
but it would be more complicated and I'd probably have to sell them
for at least $400.  What do you people out in net-land think?  Do you
think there is a big enough market?

				Jeff Wille (wille@frith.egr.msu.edu)
					   (wille@happy.egr.msu.edu)

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.   -- Gregg Easterbrook