Post by pacwin September 4, 2013 (1 of 66)
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Sony debuts new line of high-resolution audio products
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/09/04/sony-new-high-resolution-audio-products/2762773/
Sony is turning up the volume on high resolution music.
The electronics company introduced a new line of products, coming this fall, that process and play a variety of high-resolution music formats including new Direct Stream Digital (DSD) downloads.
Several music companies including Sony, Universal and Warner pledged to support the movement with added high-res releases. Among the artists with music preloaded on new Sony products: Miles Davis (So What), Willie Nelson (Georgia on My Mind), Aretha Franklin (Baby, I Love You) and the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations).
Newer releases from artists including Sting, John Mayer and Sheryl Crow will be among the 20 high-res tracks pre-loaded on two new Sony high-res music players due out this fall. Also coming: a digital-to-analog converter for connecting computer-based music libraries to home stereos, new high-res speakers and headphones.
Sony and the labels hope to attract consumers with downloadable music that improves on MP3 and other compressed formats. High-res downloads can surpass CD-quality sound and deliver a vinyl-like listening experience.
"It's been more than a decade since the first MP3 digital downloads and music players were introduced to the public," said Sony president and COO Phil Molyneux in a statement released in conjunction with the Wednesday announcement. "Now is the time to offer high-resolution audio products that bring music enthusiasts closer to their favorite recordings, and allow them to experience those recordings the way the artists, producers and engineers always intended."
Consumers have a growing interest in high-resolution music, Molyneux said, citing new data from new data from the Consumer Electronics Association. For nine in ten consumers, sound quality is the most important component of a quality audio experience, research suggests. And nearly 40% of consumers with a moderate interest in audio say they are willing to pay more for high quality audio electronics devices.
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or here:
http://blog.sony.com/press/sony-introduces-high-resolution-audio-products-which-marry-convenience-and-quality/
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Saw this on USA Today website but couldn't tell if it was multichannel compatible.
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Post by pacwin September 4, 2013 (3 of 66)
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Post by Iain September 7, 2013 (5 of 66)
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It's a gigantic step in the right direction, but what I'm actually waiting for is this functionality to become native to AVR; similar to FLAC implementation today.
Simply insert your favourite USB 3.0 flash memory module into AVR and go.
I hate the notion of stuffing yet another "box" into my A/V rack. KISS!!!!
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Post by Tehillim September 7, 2013 (6 of 66)
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All well and good but I'd be most happy to have a simple way to copy the SACD layer of my all SACD discs to computer files without convoluted work around involving a "correct" type of old PS3 and ancillary software, etc.
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Post by Ubertrout September 7, 2013 (7 of 66)
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One does wonder why Sony doesn't just bite the bullet and include a way to (with encryption if they like) rip SACDs legally via this device. Otherwise it's another expensive box for a limited purpose which seems doomed to fail.
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Post by rammiepie September 7, 2013 (8 of 66)
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Ubertrout said:
One does wonder why Sony doesn't just bite the bullet and include a way to (with encryption if they like) rip SACDs legally via this device. Otherwise it's another expensive box for a limited purpose which seems doomed to fail.
Considering that approximately 99.9% (educated guess) of the world's population has NO idea what an SACD is and the paltry amount of true DSD (not DSD mastered from analogue/PCM sources) recordings in existence, unless SONY plans to integrate a DSD codec into their forthcoming 4kx2k video standard, I will have to wholeheartedly agree with Ubertrout that this foray is doomed to failure.
Furthermore, I'm a firm believer that original PCM recordings should remain in the PCM domain and do not derive any further benefits from DSD remastering.
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Post by Ear September 8, 2013 (9 of 66)
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I would rather like to see them releasing more SACDs including download codes or whatever...
A combination would be nice
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Post by Iain September 8, 2013 (10 of 66)
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rammiepie said:
Considering that approximately 99.9% (educated guess) of the world's population has NO idea what an SACD is and the paltry amount of true DSD (not DSD mastered from analogue/PCM sources) recordings in existence, unless SONY plans to integrate a DSD codec into their forthcoming 4kx2k video standard, I will have to wholeheartedly agree with Ubertrout that this foray is doomed to failure.
Furthermore, I'm a firm believer that original PCM recordings should remain in the PCM domain and do not derive any further benefits from DSD remastering.
TBH, this is beginning to sound like a marketing statement and nothing more than that.
I believe Sony have much more than this in store in future.
It's a starting point for them.
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