nutekk: i agree with some of your points, i think it's a case of 'let the buyer beware', and i don't blame you for being angry.
i think it's a case of misunderstanding USB. i'm not that familiar with it, but i thought it was only capable of sending 2 stereo streams of audio.
if it's capable of two 16/44.1 streams, it seems there should be some kind of 'ADAT SMUX' (or whatever) fix.
in other words, maybe the whole usb bandwidth could somehow be used to transfer one stereo stream of 24/96 - but i guess it's not there yet, and maybe never will be.
i went back to the Access site and read the specs over several times.
they justifiably repeat the fact that it has 24/192 analog converters.
they also state that it's USB2 compatible.
for someone like myself who doesn't know 'all that much' about it, i naturally assumed it would be capable of doing 24/96 over usb.
apparently that's not the case.
i always set my projects at 32/44.1 in cubase. it's my understanding that the floating point 32 bit gives you extra 'headroom' to avoid 'rounding errors' when using processing and fx and whatever.
this supposedly gives you a more accurate signal too dither down to 16 bits.
i defintely can hear the difference when recording at 16 or 24 bits. the 'airiness' of 96 versus 48 or 44.1 is much less apparent to me.
i guess it boils down to 'i'm a little disappointed that the TI can't send 24/96 over usb.'
ya, in the end, it's up to the user to know that kind of stuff and access has no real responsibility to disclose it, but i think it would have helped them rather than possibly pissing people off, had they done so.
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