"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.

David Looser wrote:

"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.

It's a shame that 'high-end' has become such a laughing stock. A victim of the
absurdly and ridiculously opinionated ideas of its promoters. Less is more and
the like.

Graham

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"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?

Before the telegraph there was no such thing as transmission of electricity
over such long distances. Before the telephone there was no such thing as
electroacoustics. This is very basic technology, not adding a gold plating
to stuff that has been around for 50 years.

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.

High end audio is now about being as wasteful as possible.

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in
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"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?

Before the telegraph there was no such thing as transmission of
electricity over such long distances.

Certainly. The electric telegraph is the grand-daddy of the entire
telecomms/broadcasting/audio-video/computing sector. (I thought that was
*my* point?)

Before the telephone there was no such thing as electroacoustics. This is
very basic technology, not adding a gold plating to stuff that has been
around for 50 years.

I'm not sure who you think is gold-plating what. I was responding to "In the
sense that digital audio technology was ported into the audio industry from
other industries" Whilst it is certainly true that digital audio relied upon
technologies developed for other sectors, to suggest that digital audio
*didn't* require a good deal of R&D to adapt those technologies to this new
application is nonsense. From the electric telegraph onwards the various
branches: telephones, wireless telegraphy, sound broadcasting, computers,
television etc. etc. have all contributed technological advances and
components to each other. The use of digital electronic technology
originally developed for computers in the development of digital audio is no
different from the use of valves developed for radio applications in the
development of digital computers a few decades earlier.

David.