Superdad
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You still have a couple months left yet to sell your USB based trinkets.
LOL Mike. You really think a majority of the computer audio market is going to abandon USB in a few months time? Keep dreaming…

And on the AES67/Ravenna front, please tell where the DAC makers are going to get their multi-platform virtual sound card s/w from and who is going to maintain it. Merging is not giving away their OS X and Windows s/w for use on other AES67/Ravenna implementations, and the Windows Ravenna Virtual Soundcard s/w ALC NetworX is giving away is crap.
As I have been saying all along:
It is about s/w as much as h/w. Until audio over Ethernet s/w is built into the OS, or someone gives it all away and maintains it with every OS update, the barrier to entry for most DAC manufacturers in the high end will remain too high for them to pursue. I keep hoping that Coveloz will step up and offer something attractive (i.e. including s/w) to OEMs with their BACH-minuet module.
But I am with you about Dante being a dead end--both technologically and business-wise. I sincerely doubt that any high-end audio company is going to adopt their dusty modules for a new product. Sorry Rob.