nobody can call MY products crap, not after this:

[Eric]

There are announcements all over the place for
a PC audio card called a "HardSID".

It uses up to FOUR SID chips......yes, I said SID chips.

Thus:
http://www.dancetech.com/users/NEWS/DT-NEWSPAGE.CFM

Lessee...SIDs have been out of production for, oh,
at least 10 years. You can't even get them NOS.

Yet there are now TWO products on the
market today that use SIDs.

If those guys can sell a product based on a not-very-good
sound IC that isn't available anymore (except by digging it out 
of old Commodore 64s), then I can sell tube synths!!
This makes me feel much better.

Eric Barbour
METASONIX