Ha ha... isn't jealously a lovely thing!!
According to a guy called Mario at Apogee Digital the Ensemble is going to be retailing at an unbelievable $1995 (?111
- the actual street price should be lower. I have not stopped laughing since I found out.
Apple has been working very closely with Apogee on this to ensure the highest integration with Logic. The general feeling on other Pro-Audio forums is that the cost has been kept down by Apple's involvement - to attempt to port people over using Logic on a Mac. Interesting indeed.
Another valid point which I read was that at the price above surely the A/D D/A conversion cannot be as good as Apogee's current Rosetta range - but again this technology has been around for years - why not?
I eagerly anticipate the first kit reviews...