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In Reply to: I think I'm enjoying it more than ZS posted by Jazz Inmate on August 25, 2004 at 10:49:17:
After taking care of our audio reproduction systems, we quickly realize that, as "audiophiles", the bottleneck is the quality of the engineering behind a recording.Ive stopped my component upgrading/tweaking based on this simple realization, and i suspect many on the high resolution forums (SACD and DVD-A) feel the same. The importance of high res reproduction is critical to us, yet we know hires, in its current form(s), will not become a standard, does not encompass the broad works of arts outthere, cannot be obtained cheaply (at the least at the rates at which we buy, and as you note), can not be swapped between different platforms, will not slow down the perilious gains in the low resolution market (MP3, ipods, etc.), and, if anything, this adoption of cheap lowres music will compromise emphasis on well engineered recordings. We are headed striaght into isolation where our choices, however extensive, will remain limited in comparison.
Whatever our stand on the DVD-A and SACD issue, the ones deciding the faith of high res. have found a way to divide and conquer themselves.
In the early days of dualdisk there's always the possibility that the prices will drop once a larger audience buys into it (i know, i know...:-)). Lets hope. It wont help if SACD sticks around as an alternative (and should remain a niche hires format, as noted by others, since it might have found dedicated aging buyers).
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