SACD and DVD-A are dead, there is no doubt about this. There are already a couple of new high res. formats, but the focus more on movies and not on music and I dont want to install a 10.2 super surround setup in order listen to music in audiophile quality. I still prefer stereo for music.
Im more afraid of CD quality becoming worse. Not because of the technology, just because there is a trend to optimize the mastering for compressed formats. A German hifi magazine has recently analyzed the dynamic of a classic rock album that was originally sold as vinyl records, later on CD and than remastered twice. The result was that the vinyl record had a dynamic of 40 dB, the first CD has the same (even though the CD could do 90 DB), the last remastered one was extremely load, but the dynamic was reduced to 5 dB only (good for radio and iPod, but not for me). Since I have my transporter, I would prefer music download, instead of ripping CDs. Unfortunately there are only a few providers who offer uncompressed music. I like the Linn master recordings, but the offers are quite limited. -- MacMini ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MacMini's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45839
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