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<blockquote data-quote="David Buckley" data-source="post: 130922" data-attributes="member: 2235">Re: A thousand bucks for Dante card????It&#039;s &quot;worse&quot; than that; looking at the pictures of the Behringer xdante card, the Behringer card is nothing more than a carrier for an Audinate Brooklyn II module which does all the Dante protocol stuff.Theres two ways of loking at xdante pricing, depending if you&#039;re a glass half empty or half full kind of guy.On one hand, the Behringer card may be expensive, but the PC end is just software, at a very reasonable at a mere $30, so for a longer version of a USB cable it&#039;s overall quite good value, I too just wish the Australasian price for the xdante were more reflective of the USD price.&nbsp; Putting MADI on a PC is certainly not a cheaper option, and a Livewire (a competitor AoIP protocol to Dante) driver for a PC is something like $750!!!On the other hand, Behringer could implement Dante from the ground up; it&#039;s not impossible to to, there is even an open source implementation.&nbsp; Obviously there are royalties to pay, but given that Behringer are all about the volume, I&#039;m sure they could negotiate a very attractive royalty rate, and bring Dante to the masses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="David Buckley, post: 130922, member: 2235"] Re: A thousand bucks for Dante card???? It's "worse" than that; looking at the pictures of the Behringer xdante card, the Behringer card is nothing more than a carrier for an Audinate Brooklyn II module which does all the Dante protocol stuff. Theres two ways of loking at xdante pricing, depending if you're a glass half empty or half full kind of guy. On one hand, the Behringer card may be expensive, but the PC end is just software, at a very reasonable at a mere $30, so for a longer version of a USB cable it's overall quite good value, I too just wish the Australasian price for the xdante were more reflective of the USD price. Putting MADI on a PC is certainly not a cheaper option, and a Livewire (a competitor AoIP protocol to Dante) driver for a PC is something like $750!!! On the other hand, Behringer could implement Dante from the ground up; it's not impossible to to, there is even an open source implementation. Obviously there are royalties to pay, but given that Behringer are all about the volume, I'm sure they could negotiate a very attractive royalty rate, and bring Dante to the masses. [/QUOTE]

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