I may be wrong, but prior to the H16-A and the Arvus it was very difficult to get HD multichannel decoded audio out from HDMI to a PC for DSP processing and then to a state of the art DAC. VanityPro makes an HDMI extractor that has USB out, but it doesn't do any decoding. The main use of multichannel dacs presently I suspect is for DSP active crossovers, and this is a very niche market. HD multichannel music is still at its infancy, and it may turn out to be nothing, but products like the H16-A are a game changer for HD multichannel music. Also if you can build a system for 1/3 the price of a Storm or Trinnov, that outperforms these processors, then I think this would be interesting for a larger niche than active crossovers.