Some thoughts - I'm devils advocate right now
- no hard feelings, please:
- no use for people with active speaker systems (these got internal amps)
- source needs to supply a good analog signal - in other words: amplifying a poor signal won't improve its quality!
- people investing in soundcards with excellent analog output will buy a full-featured amp
- is this amps powerful enough to support these passive speakers "lying around"?
- only 2.0 analog stereo, PC enthusiasts often want subwoofer support
I really only see an advantage for people interested in connecting MP3 players to a pair of speakers "lying around". Cause everyone else who wants to implement thier MP3 player into their Hifi or home cinema system already has a full-featured amp to connect the player to.
Especially based on the actually used sound formats that are pushed by the industry I am convinced that only digital output/input is the future. I am using quadral MM220 2.1 speaker system with digital optical input - no more lousy 3,5mm jacks and poor sound quality from PC soundcard!
There may be customers for this but at the moment I can hardly imagine the circumstances under which one would prefere the Kama bay amp.
Bye Oliver