I think you're confusing the topic by introducing talk of serious commercial audio formats. Most people are quite happy with .mp3's. And right now you can store the most mp3s on a blu-ray disc. And that may be the format that will last the longest.
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Eric S. Sande <[email protected]> wrote: >> I especially can't imagine why you'd bother with tape, but even >> CD has been superceded by DVD, and now you _should_ be >considering >> blu-ray. > > Not exactly. This will about cover it: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD > > Blu-ray isn't a factor. > > What IS making a difference is downloadable PCM at double > or more RBCD resolution. That blows away vinyl, CD, or > tape. The beauty of it is that most decent DACs can deal with > it. The problem is that there's not a lot of it available right now. > > But IMHO it is the future. > > As far as digitizing tapes or LPs I have a machine that will do > that. It will make an RBCD copy of either. I use it very > infrequently, as I prefer to just buy the CD if it's there as opposed > to digitizing the analog source. Sometimes it's useful, though. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
