Phil Leigh;549685 Wrote: > If it sounds great That question does not define the issue. The issue is whether the purchased music has significantly greater fidelity than the same music on a regular CD?
The anecdotal feedback to date is that it is questionable as to whether the music of the download is of significantlyi greater fidelity. That being the case, why should a squeezebox owner pay out his hard earned cash at a very significantly higher price if he is not getting something significantly better? And call me old fashioned, but I believe that a buyer should have a right to know exactly what he is buying before he buys it. And a retailer should be clear as to what exaactly it is selling to avoid potential confusion. And finally, I respect intellectual property rights. I take the macro view on this. If consumers of music don't respect the intellectual property rights of the producers of the music, then this will discourage if not outright terminate the incentive for producers of music to produce any more music. And then you have killed the goose that lays the eggs. Phil Leigh;549685 Wrote: > no encryption is being circumvented Puget Sound Studios is now representing that it indeed is obtaining unencrypted DSD data from the SACD through the digital outs of a Playback Designs SACD transport. Phil Leigh;549685 Wrote: > the Sony chipset is STILL being used and so no licence agreement is > violated That is a non sequitur. The conclusion does not follow from the premise. It's like saying that it is OK to speed on the highway just because a lot of other people are doing it. The dime has already been dropped. http://www.dropadime.net/ -- mortslim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
