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Originally posted by glevethan:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Dever:
the above mentioned review in Stereophile several times over and in fact the mentioned unit (Klimax DS) truly shines (according to the author) when fed higher bit FLAC files ("hi res"). Unfortunately, at present, there is little to no availability of said files. Who knows if there ever will be - consumers seem willing to settle for compressed MP3's at the moment.
Perhaps this could be a new source of revenue for the recording industry - re-releasing everything (again!) as higher res 24 bit downloads. They attempted to do this with SACD and DVD audio discs (unsuccessfully) so maybe the second or third time around will be the charmer.
Unfortunately I do not think that this will be happening anytime soon as it is one thing to release compressed MP3's stripped of DRM restrictions - and another releasing hi res studio master files sans DRM. Talk about file trading those babies!
With most people getting more and more download speed on internet connections, and by using something like bittorent I see no reason why I just could listen to lowbitrate samples online by the high res album and go to sleep or do something else while it is beeing downloaded. The problem really is that I personally want to have a possibility for several downloads when all my Hard drives suddenly are gone a few years down the line, so the trouble with drm has to be solved somehow.
Gregg
