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In Reply to: RE: In other words ... posted by rbolaw on November 17, 2016 at 13:49:26:
"I think higher resolution audio and video will come to the masses."That's a good positive hope. I don't know anything about video but as far as audio is concerned I can, however, find no evidence to support this.
No hi-rez format post CD has been succesful in any true sense. The only really succesful format after CD has been MP3. I count CD as hi-rez in this respect simply so that I can include streaming services offering 16/44.1 flac streams as hi-rez. In the latter espect all of the figures that I can obtain so far (they are very difficult to find) indicate that services offering MP3 have subscriber bases many times that of hi-rez services e.g. paying subscribers: Spotify 40+ million, Tidal maybe 3+ million.
I don't think hi-rez will come to the masses simply because they have no aspiration for it.
As for needing additional computer expertise this could be seen as a "cost" but is actually a barrier. Most ordinary people (i.e. non-audiophiles) just do not find the effort of learning the skills required worthwhile as the result is not that important to them.
Just to add a little flavour in regard to the demise of true hi-rez physical medium recordings, Linn Records also now appear to have stopped issuing SACDs for new releases and only CDs are available for their latest offerings.
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