High resolution music doesn't need to be paired with video: the focus is the MUSIC. It doesn't even need to be in surround, and usually shouldn't be. The reason that SACD and DVD-A tanked is because of their ludicrous copy protection. Nobody is going to buy anything that they can't make of a copy of so they can play it in their car or on their mp3 player. The Monster Superdiscs are almost a good idea, in that they carry mp3 versions of the songs, but the audio quality is not great enough.
Most music lovers want to buy good quality music, we just don't want to get bent over by stupid copy protection.
For the record, I'm 23, have a ~5,000 dollar STEREO system and would love to pay money for more high quality, high resolution music for it. Don't leave me hanging, or ruin it by making it overly difficult to have a burnt copy in my car, (so I don't have to worry about it getting scratched or stolen).
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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High resolution music doesn't need to be paired with video: the focus is the MUSIC. It doesn't even need to be in surround, and usually shouldn't be. The reason that SACD and DVD-A tanked is because of their ludicrous copy protection. Nobody is going to buy anything that they can't make of a copy of so they can play it in their car or on their mp3 player. The Monster Superdiscs are almost a good idea, in that they carry mp3 versions of the songs, but the audio quality is not great enough.
Most music lovers want to buy good quality music, we just don't want to get bent over by stupid copy protection.
For the record, I'm 23, have a ~5,000 dollar STEREO system and would love to pay money for more high quality, high resolution music for it. Don't leave me hanging, or ruin it by making it overly difficult to have a burnt copy in my car, (so I don't have to worry about it getting scratched or stolen).