2012 - Industry Wide "High Resolution Audio"?

[nosaj]

I came across this on the Neil Young website a while ago: http://www.neilyoung.com/messagepage.html

Interesting. Thoughts?

EDIT: I thought I posted this in the "general music discussion" section...but, apparently not.

[Jack Wolf]

"The formal announcement will take place at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2012"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-20062 ... =cnetRiver

It would be nice to have a superior audio format that can replace mp3 without taking up too much space on my music player.
If they can somehow manage to put SACD quality audio onto a personal media player then that would be WOW.

[mags]

I wonder what difference it will make, with so much of newer music compressed to the same high "loudness" levels,(as mentioned in the Op article) not to mention artistic content.
A great article from several years ago now that discusses it well:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/w ... sound-same

[J Ed]

I also wonder whats the point when most people listen to music on earbuds or tinny little computer speakers
I find good speakers make the biggest difference in the listening experience, but then Im listening to vinyl on my good speakers arent I

[nosaj]

Well, I have heard Neil Young's Archive box on blu-ray, and it sounds awesome!!! BUT, Neil is a bit of an audiophile, so he wouldn't allow compression, brick walling, etc...I guess it is up to the so-called "artist" to insist on such a thing.