Timothy Stockman wrote: > I think Pat's referring to post-CD digital formats such as SACD and > DVD-A.
Right, red book was invented before computers. At least it sure seems like that, they could have trivially added stuff to make it far better, but it was a major improvement when direct Digital Audio Extraction became possible. > If I understand correctly, Sony mandated that no consumer SACD > player would output an unencrypted digital signal. And DVD-A defines a > "down-sampled" unencrypted digital output. All ways the industry > attempts to keep the digital information locked up on the disc and give > you access to only an analog output. Of course, they failed. There was always the "analog loophole" where all you need is a six channel PCM audio card running at 88.2 or 96 kHz to make "digital" copies that are indistingishable from the original. Assuming of course, that the SACD or DVD-A actually had something other than Red Book audio on them in the first place. > The average consumer seems quite content to live with analog > interconnection. Sadly the average consumer has no clue what audio quality is. I think a more fundamental problem with multi-channel for audio (separate from movie soundracks) is that there is no standard mix, so even if you could get 5 audiophile speakers in the room (talk about zero WAF) you don't and can't know where to place them. If I had been king of audio, I'd have said "the standard is two big front speakers, a subwoofer and two (or three) spacial ambience speaker. The spacial speakers do not have to be full range. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
