[massimo]

My dream of a digital mixer is quite different from yours.

I love using a mixer for mixing, I do not use it for tracking. I hate using computers for music. I'd like to upgrade from my Yamaha 03R, which has served me well as a digital-through box, but hate to be forced to buy unnecessary things like tons of average converters and micpres that are always built in.
I would like a digital/through-only mixer. Like if - say- Yamaha did their DM1000 without throwing in there dozens of mic-pres or a/d converters that noone uses.
Many of us go outboard micpre to outboard converter into the recording medium of choice (mine is a Fostex d2424). No mixer needed for tracking.

Then you go digital out of the recorder. Now you do want a mixer that doesn't cut any corners in terms of digital connectivity, use here part of what you have saved doing without an analog front end. All formats built in.

You love to use outboard analog processing, don't you? No attempt to put any eq or dynamics or effects inboard the mixer. Use your existing gear. Cut production expenses also here, and give us the best and widest possible selection of send-return connections, digital and analog. Put the sole very best A/D and D/A converters HERE.
Then great motorized faders, a choice of digital outputs, memory slots for mix scenes and flexible routing capabilities, features which are already ubiquitous even in low-cost boxes.
Maybe it is philosophically the digital equivalent of the Speck Lilo, as far as I understand
any opinions?
ciao
Massimo