I've been cutting on an Avid since the early 90's, but the systems were always provided by my employers. Several years ago I set up a small system with an old Mac Pro, flashed the ROM so it could work with the current versions, Mackie 16 channel mixing board, and 888 24 bit I/O, Nitris DX, 3 work monitors, 1 client monitor and 5.1 powered audio