Through the years, Young has always been a notorious stickler for audio quality, being one of the first artists to build his own personal recording studio based around hand-picked vintage audio gear, then later investing in Pacific Microsonics, which developed the HDCD audio technology that was acquired by Microsoft in 2000. He’s also been a big proponent of high-res audio formats like DVD-Audio and most recently Blu-Ray. To read the rest of the article, go to Forbes.
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I'm interested to see if this idea has any traction among the masses.
Most music listening is done while involved in another activity and not while sitting on the floor in front of a "hi-fi" system.
Although it would be nice for the public to not only notice quality differences between formats, but actually CARE about it, I'm not sure that the business case will be there for an idea like this unless it's exactly the same price/breadth as iTunes.
Of course I'd pick a higher quality format if it was still $0.99, but if I had to pay more, I likely wouldn't. I just know that I'll be listening on a crappy pair of ear buds, on the bus or out for a run etc. and the quality difference just won't be appreciable with those environments.
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