Thomas Brandon wrote:
>I gather you own a Pulsar. What is it like. The specs look great I'll have
>to have a look for an Australian reseller.

I was discussing this with someone else last week (prices in Australian $$)

Scope ($15,000) has 15 60MHz SHARC chips.
Not yet available in Australia.

Pulsar has 4 SHARCs, is about $2800, but you can buy a $2000 expansion
card which gives another 4 SHARCs.

Distributor Major Music Wholesale (02) 9545 3540.

>What is your setup? As I am sure
>you can gather I don't exactly have a studio setup but am interested in
>getting one together (later rather than sooner given the cost). Thus I am
>always on the look out for good names to put away for the time I fork out
my
>hard earned cash.


I'd agree with the other comments about saving money and sticking with the
SB. There is also a hifi product called DAC-IN-A-BOX (encel in melbourne
sell them) which isn't too expensive ($300) and will add high quality analog
output to anything with an spdif interface (which will probably be better
than anything with the DACs inside the 'puter).

I havn't heard anything good about the creamware products - unless you have
software that can make use of the DSP chips you'd be better off with a
"dumb" i/o card. I'm using a Frontier Design Wavecenter (ADAT + SPdif analog
+ optical) + Zulu - Software, drivers and support have been excellent I
bought mine from Mission AV in the states - much cheaper than the local
criminals.

Ross

Chilling in Adelaide, South Australia.
http://www.audiomulch.com/