Hi-Fi Audio… Who cares?


The latest... (well sort of latest) developments in the multimedia content provision on the web have made, all of sceptical about what is coming...

Who cares about the hi-end audio gear any more? Very few and most of them are doing it in between downloading their free audio content from the web as they read pages like this one.

The latest buy out of NullSoft by America On Line has made all of us Hi-Fi Audio enthousiasts to think well about the future of our hobby. It looks as if sooner that later we will concentrate more on the encoding and decoding algorithms rather than the science of materials of that formed the foundamentals of good, pure sound.

MP3 is becoming more and more the industry standard and now the difference in sounding good is a matter of better software than anything else. It's a difference we can all hear (we don't even have to listen carefully - it so apparent). Just download Null Softs WinAmp 2.23 play song and then try to listen to the same song with your Windows Media Player. Win Amp stands out as the best - virtual - "machine".

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