What are you dreaming of after CD + MP3?

[middletom]

I was thinking of that and about what could be the next industry standard. I was thinking of all the mp3s floating the net and how most of them are bad quality and overcompressed... So what could an industry, that is on their last legs, do to attract the consumers to buy their albums new or actually buy albums?


assumed that in a few years the whole piracy thing has become unprovitable and the bandwidth become bigger while harddisks get smaller... What would costumers stop from buying 24 bit audiofiles, if the industry does enough propaganda?

Just a thought, or a dream, or whatever and I'm wondering what you guys think about it.

Middletom

[surflounge]

audiophile audiofiles delivered on hard drives?

[big country]

hard drives that record in analog so you would load a Wav. or what ever
and it would go onto a hard drive but in an analog form

or maybe even a analog partition of a hard drive


a good new medium would kinda wake the industry

[big country]

[the_man361]

Originally Posted by big country

hard drives that record in analog so you would load a Wav. or what ever
and it would go onto a hard drive but in an analog form

or maybe even a analog partition of a hard drive


a good new medium would kinda wake the industry

uhhhh

haha :D

[huggie]

Check this thread out: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/360649-flac-our-current-best-hope-future-fidelity.html


I personally like this format:



Hugo

[la grange]

more speed with less space. better converters.

Oli

[surflounge]

Don't believe the marketing hype about the value of today's variety of high resolution audiophile music download delivery options. Quality is vastly improved in the current professional production phase, but quality in the home playback phase is questionable: home theater with dinky so-called satellite speakers and subwoofers, ads saying you can get surround sound in your laptop computer, MP3s, lossy compression, music through your cell phone, streaming music on the internet — come on, my VCR still flashes 12:00 because nobody can program it.

[MarkRB]

I'm dreaming of an analogue optical disc.

Talked about a while ago here.

The laser burns a waveform onto the disc using variable voltage laser rather than the 1's and 0's pits.

Like vinyl and tape without the mechanical problems.

[Keith Moore]

I'm hoping that hard drive space will get larger while there sizes get smaller. Then we'll get to a point where we can fit a large amount of 16bit audio files. 24bit would be even better. Imagine to be able to record in 96k/24bit and not have to convert or dither at the end of a mix? I'm pretty sure that's what Super Audio CD's are like but that format never took off.

Well that's my 2 cents

[msquared]

It is almost unforgivable that modern digital media players can't all handle 24/96k FLAC files.