Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved

Off on this one again PO? Move on.

No one is replacing other formats.

We have just reached a point where more people have computers or computer based entertainment than the old methods of music playback. That's all. It's a natural progression.

I occasionally check this threat to see if Pettyofficer is still at it. He never disappoints. Entertaining as hell. He couls publish this as "ramblings of an paranoid audiophile" and make a killing.

I had moved on, Chadeffect. Someone else had ressurected
this Thread "Walking Dead" Style. You would know this if
you had kept up with the Thread. I still don't get your
Orwellian "Doubletalk", or "Doublespeak" within the same
breath. You say no-one is threatening to eliminate
competing Formats. Then you say (In the same breath) that
it is just that most people own Computers, and that it is
just a natural selection. You are making me dizzy with your
hopping from one foot to the next. Would most of these
people, who own Computers, be listening to mostly lower
than CD Resolution MP3? I hear that there is alot of Profit
in that. Invest your time, and money in that if your Sound
Quality takes a back seat to someone elses Profit! They might even thank-you for it. One can always hope. Just
don't expect strictly Profit motivated Computer Audio Manufacturers to suddenly turn away from lower than CD Res. MP3 Profitability, and risk Margin in boosting
costly High Res. Download Selection. It is not that they
could produce High Res. more inexpensively, it is just that
Profit Margin on larger Low Res. MP3 market will always be
many times greater. Even if I were them I would have to ask: "Why in the World am I even wasting so much of my
resources on High Res. Downloads with a tiny Market? Now
low Res. MP3- LOOK AT ALL OF THAT CHEDDAR!!! Just got to
get over that hump of percieved lower Sound Quality. Just
gotta delude everyone to get onboard with false promises
of a soon to be gravy train of High Res. Selection (SACD 2.0)". Congradulations, you have just become the 21st Century version of "Pavlov's Dogs". They ring a bell, you will drool, and you will pay anything to be fed. You wont even mind the low quality taste of the dirt you are being fed, after all it is the most convenient thing for you to feed on- especially if it is the only thing available for you to feed on! You wont even remember what High Res., or High Quality anything is anymore. Some of us just don't want to go there with our Music, because we are just "PARANOID" of sound quality becoming THAT irrelevant! We are funny that way. You want exclusionary Format
Authority over everyone? You have to earn it with a large
enough selection in High Res./ High Quality. "Soon all
new Music will only be available as lower than CD Resolution MP3 Downloads"- Ooops! Where did we go wrong
Mr. "WESTWORLD"? Me thinks that you will never be ready to
take over the Audio Market with this level of incompetence.
Try not tying your shoelaces (Logic and Reason) together
in a knot. Try following the "MONEY" to determine someones
intent, and motivation for a change, KAA-CHING!!!

Oh dear PO,

Double speak? Keeping up with this thread? Let's start again.

Double speak: surely we have done the conversation about format. You can listen to any "format" you wish. You will always have them. Computer audio can be any resolution you want. If sound quality is less important than the number of tracks you store, then you have compressed files. If sound quality is important to you, then you can use lossless or non compressed files. These files will be at least CD quality.

No one is forcing you to do anything. There is just a change in the way music is being used, which is much more flexible. If you want CDs you can order them. The question is why bother? They are made from a file anyway.

Keeping up with this thread: since it seems that this thread is either you saying the same thing, or everyone else saying the opposite, I don't feel it's too much of a challenge to keep up. But then again maybe I've been brain washed by various computer manufactures to see one side of the argument? I shall reboot & update myself and check. Please meditate on the fact you can have any format you wish. But most have adopted the next format along. That's all.

So if most have opted for downloads/files as opposed to a physical disk then it's likely they will be better served as they are in the majority & easier to serve. If you want to stay with old school formats it will mean it will be more of a cottage industry. But still available! You choose.

I don't call lowering sound quality down to less than CD
Resolution MP3 as being "Flexible"! I see a historical
trend of dumming down sound quality from Vinyl to CD, and
then from CD to lower Resolution MP3. What will be the
lower resolution Computer Audio of tomorrow, and will it
squeeze out any chance for High Res. anything? This is
flexibility? Eight Track, and Cassettes were flexible-
I don't see them around anymore. Keep the trend of lowering
resolution going, and pretty soon these ancient Formats
would sound better. How about if we cut the resolution of
low res. MP3 in half to really boost flexibility. Keep
cutting it in half again, and again doubling our flexibility everytime. What is your point? Put square tires
on your car to increase flexibility in choice of tires?
There was a time when the idea of a New Format meant an
increase in Sound Quality, not the flexibility of worse
Sound Quality. Where is the flexibility in Music Selection
for High Resolution Downloads? All that I see is a
Computer Audio Format that is 10% High Res. Downloads, and
90%- CD Res. or Lower than CD Res. MP3. Where is the
flexibility in High Res./ High Sound Quality in that?
Don't try to sell me that it is just around the corner, or
"Soon To Be". You might as well be trying to sell me SACD
again. Show me the High Res. Selection first BEFORE we
start eliminating any Formats. You can keep the rest of
that low Res. MP3 Computer crap! Flexibility my butt! I
don't buy "Lemmons", or "Money Pits" for the sake of
flexibility. Do you purposely shop for rotten vegetables
at the local market, lower quality for the sake of
flexibility- I THINK NOT! You would have me special order
my rotten vegetables through the mail- ain't that special.
You can still buy the freshest vegetables at the local
market, unless the demand for rotten vegetables is so high
that rotten vegetables is the only thing that they stock on the shelf. The stench would be horrendous, you know that- who are you trying to kid? That is what really stinks about this whole Computer Audio Downloading Format-
the idea that lower than CD Res. isn't just acceptable, it
is encouraged by you as a "Flexible" alternative. Cans and
String are cheap/ flexible too! What is your point? "Soon
all new music will only be available via cans and string"?
Euuuwww- I am blown away by the flexibility here. You want
flexibility try Yoga. You want low res. flexibility, try
Yoga in Sewage Treatment Plant. Shoot me for trying to
aspire to non-flexible higher Sound Quality. I am just "Nuts", "Paranoid", and "On Drugs"! Raw Sewage,
Rotten Vegetable, Low Resolution Audio Formats just don't
appeal to me. Shove it down my throat, you go ahead and try!