Neil Young’s new audio format, “revolutionary new audio music system…highest digital resolution poss” Options

[kraut]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nei...format-20120403

"Young is also personally spearheading the development of Pono, a revolutionary new audio music system presenting the highest digital resolution possible, the studio quality sound that artists and producers heard when they created their original recordings. Young wants consumers to be able to take full advantage of Pono's cloud-based libraries of recordings by their favorite artists and, with Pono, enjoy a convenient music listening experience that is superior in sound quality to anything ever presented."

again another repeat of a another new revolutionary audio system...how many more times to try to get money from us connoisseurs of music?
I bet it will not be just for new music, oh no...another upgraded catalogue of redone shit coming down the pike...

[Rotareneg]

If you think about it, it only makes sense to move to a better format: The Red Book CD audio standard came out in 1980. The original IBC PC came out in '81 and had a 4.77 MHz 16 bit processor. It's now 2012 and 2 GHz (and greater) and 64 bit is common now. Thus, we should be listening to 64 bit audio sampled at 18.5 MHz.

The only possible answer to this lack of advancement is that the audio hardware companies are lazy and have been milking ancient technologies for every penny they're worth without spending any money at all on R&D.

[julf]

If you think about it, it only makes sense to move to a better format: The Red Book CD audio standard came out in 1980. The original IBC PC came out in '81 and had a 4.77 MHz 16 bit processor. It's now 2012 and 2 GHz (and greater) and 64 bit is common now. Thus, we should be listening to 64 bit audio sampled at 18.5 MHz.

Absolutely! Likewise, I think it is a scandal that the mains voltage has been staying at 110 V in the US and 220/230/240 V in Europe since the 19th century! It's now 2012, so surely we should have moved to a couple of kilovolts by now!