Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved

Pettyofficer,
No! The high res download is different to the SACD &DVDA problems. As I explained, you do not need Specialist/elitest/expensive equipment to play high res files. That is why SACD suffered.

The beauty now is everything can play these files. Also high res does not need any extra process to make it. The master usually is high res. so if anything, it's more work to dither down to CD quality or lower.

There is no risk, as whatever kit you buy will play all the above, and if not, the file could easily be converted to what you need.

You will always get CDs as a physical disk. There are so many already manufactured. You will just order them from storage places like amazon's warehouses. But just remember the polution they cause...

Is it a monopoly that Ford don't make a model T anymore? What replaced it was way better so the T became history. A mark to show how far we have come. Can't you see that?

No getting you, Chadeffect. How is the requirement of
getting a DAC that can decode: 16/44.1, 24/88, 24/96, 24/176, 24/192, and any additional Sampling Rates to be
inserted inbetween these- not elitist? You are going to need a Specialist/ Elitist/ Expensive DAC every Month for
each additional Sampling Rate. A New DAC every Month,
sounds expensive to me! Ditto for USB to Digital
Converter, or USB Input for DAC.
Poor example of model T, since only Ford made model
T car. Ford is hardly the only car Manufacturer today-
where is the potential for Monopoly? Monopolies are
created by minimizing the purchasing choices that
Consumers have. Eliminating all other Audio Formats for
the sake of one, Computer Audio, certainly minimizes
Consumer Purchasing Choices. This gives the Manufacturers
more power to enforce an anti-Capitalist Monopoly, and
leaves the Consumer weaker to defend against a Monopoly
take over of a Capitalist Audio Market. We are going to
be the Computer Audio Manufacturer's "B_TCH" for a good
long time. Hardly in a position to demand higher quality
(High Rez. Downloads) with more Music Selection. You take
what they give you in a Monopoly, or you don't get the
"Son of a B_TCH". That means whatever has the most profit
margin that benefits the Manufacturer only! Your conciderations of High Rez. become irrelevant compared to
profit. You don't have the alternate purchasing choice as
leverage, you gave that away in the form of alternate Audio
Formats. You do yourself no favors, nor anyone else. Can't
you see that?

Wow, I've not looked at this thread in 2 weeks, pop on to find the same ole LAME arguments going on (that make no sense) by Petty Officer.
No one is going to get through to this guy, we are now imperialist, capitalist, Elitist....
And those terrible manufacturers that are in business to make money... How dare they!
He is obviously ticked that he sunk a bunch of money into a couple of formats that didn't make it.... That has nothing to do with computer audio.
and Pettyofficer....YOU telling everyone what WE think and what WE believe and what WE are doing is really tiring.....Especially when you are wrong about it all...
I feel for you, but you are beating on about 25 or 30 audiophiles.... Take your battle to the blood sucking pig elitist, capitalist, imperialist, communist...oh wait you didn't say communist did you, YOU are just acting like one..If you are an engineer,build the products that you so hardily fight for and take it to the bank... You can then join the club.

Like I said before, quit responding to his rants and he will go away. It's his M.O. if you guys haven't noticed. Next week it will be something else he'll jump on the soapbox about.I gather,by his username, that he is an old wore out retired Navy man with nothing else to do in his life. You can never have a rational conversation with him because he is always right no matter what the subject is. Believe me, I've been around plenty of guys like this.

Loving your tenacity Pettyofficer,

All recent DACs do the sample rates you mention & will continue to do so.

If you have a really old DAC that at best will do 44.1k, then you can dither down to that, while keeping the original file safe until you get a newer DAC. Even your phone will do most of these rates!

Forget the model T. You know what I'm getting at. Don't be a dinosaur. Good DACs are cheap, very good & will do all the rates you need. Better than the highly rated old DACs of the past. It all moved forward & the chip sets got cheaper.

To answer the rest of your 050112 post you may as well read my above posts as we have already been there.

I'm am sorry you don't seem to get the gist of it. You can't say I did try to help you. You have all the choice you could wish for. Possibly too much!

Understand the beauty of the file as a format, everything reads it these days, & always will. If you want to play CDs why not just burn your own from the file. All computers will do that.

Thank you Pettyofficer old friend. It was fun. I never posted so much. Now I must say goodbye. Embrace the future.