"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in
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Are you really suggesting that digital audio was *not*
the result of some serious R&D?

In the sense that digital audio technology was ported into the audio
industry from other industries.

All the electronics and communications technologies have fed off each other
from the invention of the electric telegraph onwards, so what?

Also, not all audio is hi fi. There are other flavors of audio including
communications and sound reinforcement.

The genesis of many innovations in hi fi would depend on how you define hi
fi. If you define hi fi as high end audio, then you have to realize that
the first thing that high end audio did with digital is reject it, and
class it as something that was more of interest to people who wanted mid
fi.


"High end audio" isn't "Hi-Fi". Hi-Fi is about good quality sound whilst
"High end Audio" is about status symbols and money, it's also deliberately
retro.


David.