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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 39449" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Toa has a digital mixerYes, TOA was early to the game, but IIRC very expensive. It wasn&#039;t until Yamaha developed a lower priced digital mixer that the market took root and started growing. JRedit- that is really interesting ... it&#039;s a digital version of their standard modular mixer/amp series. It requires a whole new series of modules too. This offers some of the same flexibility of the analog series of mixer/amps, where you can customize mix of inputs and outputs. As with the analog mixer/amps it will probably be somewhat more expensive that dedicated solutions, but the flexibility to configure on the fly, or after the fact should be attractive. I never anticipated this (a blind spot in my crystal ball). The install market is pretty conservative and tight with their money.. I guess the cost and acceptance of digital has progressed enough to make this practical, unless they are once again ahead of the market price-wise.&nbsp; The fact that all the inputs are duals, shows the influence of consumer electronics chip design (mostly stereo sources and paths). I don&#039;t see this stealing too much business from basic 900 series, but it may find a niche if it can replace some cheap generic stand alone DSP finding their way into fixed installs (like Ivan is always complaining about).&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; /edit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 39449, member: 126"] Re: Toa has a digital mixer Yes, TOA was early to the game, but IIRC very expensive. It wasn't until Yamaha developed a lower priced digital mixer that the market took root and started growing. JR edit- that is really interesting ... it's a digital version of their standard modular mixer/amp series. It requires a whole new series of modules too. This offers some of the same flexibility of the analog series of mixer/amps, where you can customize mix of inputs and outputs. As with the analog mixer/amps it will probably be somewhat more expensive that dedicated solutions, but the flexibility to configure on the fly, or after the fact should be attractive. I never anticipated this (a blind spot in my crystal ball). The install market is pretty conservative and tight with their money.. I guess the cost and acceptance of digital has progressed enough to make this practical, unless they are once again ahead of the market price-wise. The fact that all the inputs are duals, shows the influence of consumer electronics chip design (mostly stereo sources and paths). I don't see this stealing too much business from basic 900 series, but it may find a niche if it can replace some cheap generic stand alone DSP finding their way into fixed installs (like Ivan is always complaining about). /edit [/QUOTE]

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