Here's a little info on what the first available $300 kit will be about.
The kit will include:
**Professionally made and powder coated 19" rack mount enclosure with all appropriate fasteners, standoffs and hardware to assemble. Unit will hold (11) 500 series modules.
**Custom and beautiful, professionally made 3mm thick PCB backplane.
**(11) 18 pin card edge connectors. We will be using the 18 pin universally. A small piece of PCB for a spacer is all that is needed to ensure proper seating of a standard 15-pin 500 series module.
**(11) Neutrik female XLR's.
**(11) Neutrik male XLR's. The XLR's are PCB mount and are also secured to the back of the enclosure with 2 screws each. These are not cheap **** plastic. These are very nice and special order.
The end user will have to supply the panel mount power connector of choice and power supply of choice as well. Volker and Sahib will have a few PSU options coming in the near future.