This beast can take 48 mic inputs, preamp them, a/d convert and then send the channels over ethernet using the aes50 protocol.

The x32 mixer can accept up to 32 aes50 channels. It can then send up to 32 channels out. I have a dante card in the board (another protocol / chip). It send 32 channels to my cpu, which itself has a dante pcie. The cpu then sums that two left and right and sends it back out dante to dual channel rednet controller I own to which my monitors are connected. Total round trip from mic to cpu to the monitors is roughly 1ms if no plugins are running. A piano key, to jammer, to string, to the ear is 7ms. 😏