No thanks. I have a huge collection of CDs that just sit on the shelves collecting dust now that the vast majority of my library is ripped. Why would I want to go back to disc media when we have the convince of digital audio files on our computers and portable devices. My MacBook Pro can output 24 bit / 96 kHz over the built-in optical output and it's supposed to do 24/192 but nobody have been able to set it as such. I don't know that I could really tell the difference between 24/96 or 24/176 anyway, unless of course I had $100K in audio equipment. You can download "HD" audio tracks at 24/96 and even 24/192, though the selection is quite limited at this time. Moving files around on my computer, iPod, to my PS3 via DLNA is just far too convenient to go back to a disc based format.
Wait a minute...you have all your files ripped, but you're outputting them at 24/96 and you'd like to output them at 24/192? Ummm...why? The native CD bitrate is 16/44, and your ripped music is surely not higher quality than the original CD. Otherwise your point seems to be that there's not a lot of higher-def music out there, and you probably couldn't hear the difference anyway.
“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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No thanks. I have a huge collection of CDs that just sit on the shelves collecting dust now that the vast majority of my library is ripped. Why would I want to go back to disc media when we have the convince of digital audio files on our computers and portable devices. My MacBook Pro can output 24 bit / 96 kHz over the built-in optical output and it's supposed to do 24/192 but nobody have been able to set it as such. I don't know that I could really tell the difference between 24/96 or 24/176 anyway, unless of course I had $100K in audio equipment. You can download "HD" audio tracks at 24/96 and even 24/192, though the selection is quite limited at this time. Moving files around on my computer, iPod, to my PS3 via DLNA is just far too convenient to go back to a disc based format.
Wait a minute...you have all your files ripped, but you're outputting them at 24/96 and you'd like to output them at 24/192? Ummm...why? The native CD bitrate is 16/44, and your ripped music is surely not higher quality than the original CD. Otherwise your point seems to be that there's not a lot of higher-def music out there, and you probably couldn't hear the difference anyway.