The first and most important thing to understand about the DACS is that it is not just any old standard PC running a special application. The DACS hardware and the software running on the platform have been carefully selected to function as a high performance audio processing platform.

The software and hardware elements assume a specific and dedicated set of resources; therefore, the various hardware and software elements of the platform cannot be mixed with other standard PC components without the high probability of corrupting the entire process.