darrenyeats;376503 Wrote: > I have sympathy for what you're saying, really I do. The problem is, > no-one is going to take notice and pay attention until someone goes > beyond subjective impressions and actually demonstrates and shows there > is an audible difference. > > Think how great it would be for Sony if they could have done a > scientific study proving (I mean properly proving) that SACD is audibly > better than 16/44. It would be a fantastic marketing tool, and perhaps > they could have made SACD the new standard with that stroke of PR. But > my point is not about whether they COULD have proved it or not, it > isn't about what is true. My point is that they didn't prove it and > neither has anyone else. So nothing happened and all the people who > needed to get behind it didn't get behind it. > Darren Yeah, well, me neither I don't believe that commercial conglomerates care about anything "better", really. Except, as you say, as an instrument to make them sell more. I had placed my hopes on scientists and engineers, but... I don't know what to think. Instead of that, we are stuck between the "skeptics/no-change-is-needed/everything-is-the-same" on one side and some "merchants-of-placebo-effects" on the other. :(
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