I feel the pain of fellow Audiophiles that still pursue the digital perfection under the continuous harassment of the mostly clueless audio industry. Company like Slimdevices get it (of course), other like SONY do not. And they shall die a slow death. But just in case SONY is reading lets spell out what Audiophile want, and have already paid for without getting it: 1) The ability to get higher resolution digital stream to devices such as room correction, ambient decoders, digital crossovers/EQ, . All without ever converting to analog until is time to move some air. 2) The ability to store and stream such unadulterated digital stream to/from a device(PC)/network of our choice 3) The ability to transcode such digital stream to more compact version when we want to take it on the road.
Instead of SACD I would have been perfectly happy with 48/24 or 96/24 lossless compressed PCM. But what do I know? My frustration ended since I gave up on anything other then good old CDs. BTW two speakers only thank you very much. While most CDs sound pretty bad and artificial (bad recording to start with) there some that show that CD can deliver warm, natural and moving sound. Considering that my ears do not go beyond 14khz and will only get worse I will reconsider that 44khz will do just fine. I guess there was a time that SONY got it right. Now if I could only sort out the HDTV, Blue Ray, HDDVD, DVI/HDCP, Media center, DVR, HTPC, TIVO, CableCard, SAT deal -- arge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arge's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6155 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27136 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
