Home audio choice

ADAM Professional Audio (SX Series)

Interesting article in the NZ Herald, discussing consumer confusion around choosing home audio equipment for those high-end digital audio files.

Serving the music (NZ Herald)

There are so many ways to encode digital audio but what suits your average music fan?  Most people have neither the inclination nor the patience to understand the myriad options for this one or that one, nor the expertise to know whether their choice of audio system will do it justice or even play the chosen format.

Physical formats like CD removed that decision from the regular consumer - the frequency and bit rate was predetermined.  CD may not measure up the studio mastering quality now possible from some of today's high-end audio formats but it was good enough for most non-audiophile listeners.

Sometimes too much choice is not a good thing.