![]() ![]() ![]() In another world and at the same time as my hi-res learning and productions, I participated hands on from Silicon Valley in the eruptive and disruptive Internet and Data Network Communications aspects of the convergence of Voice and Data Networks (VoIP) beginning in the late 90’s. My way has been no single perfect one way, but has evolved with the industry and innovation, always trusting my ears first regardless of the media encoding or equipment used. My music then became part of the MQA improved small footprint (file size/bandwidth for full resolution), more natural sounding PCM audio download and streaming delivery as hi-res beginning in 2016.īoth highest sound quality goals and reaching new ears have always been the cornerstones of my recording projects. ![]() I was fortunate and able to release higher resolution recordings as hybrid multichannel SACDs in 20 and numerous download DSD albums since then beginning 2009. DSD proved insanely capable of achieving analog like quality in a permanent digital format with simple and still very good sounding migrations to more commonly used formats in the PCM world. Having worked directly with CD studio recording tech and self-releasing my first DIY album discs ’96, ’97, ’98, 2000, I had an urgent need to find a better quality sonic path for my commercial recording releases. Before that an even greater number of years submerged in vinyl, cassette and R2R with limited and reluctant but expanded exposure to the inevitable CD Red Book media format with lossy derivatives (MP3, AAC) used online in the early Internet years where I first participated as a musician.Īs a recording musician and as a trained data and communications software designer and integration expert extending back into the early 1980’s I have aligned and continued to hone my love of music with my technical backgrounds and hi-res audio experiences evolving as digital from the earliest analog like Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and DVD-A at the turn of the millenium. During the past 21+ years I have been steeped in the sonic pleasures of the highest resolution digital audio. I still can't find a way to do it in iTunes but then I hate the app so much I wouldn't go to the trouble if I did know how.Welcome to my world of what I’ve come to call CABLED & WIRELESS AUDIO CONVERGENCE (CWAC). See that's what's weird about computer audio players is that some don't even let you make your computer equipped with a CD player function like an actual CD player. I could create playlists of drag and dropped CD files into the Sound App window and set to auto play like it was a regular CD player on my home audio system. I long for the simple GUI design of Sound App, a free app for Mac OS Classic circa late '90's (OS 8). I've auditioned so many app players that claim "sound better" and I can never hear a difference on my MacMini or home system CD player. I do use iTunes to burn my playlists to CDR so I can play them on my home and car's system. I don't even launch iTunes because of its loaded GUI full of nested options and settings just to play music. I really don't like complexity when all I want to do is hear music at the best quality possible which is CD rez. Hit the space bar and it plays the selected music. Sounds perfect in high rez 16bit/41000Hz.
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