MAY/14

摘要

Two significant trends are at work in today's audio world - increasing interest in high resolution music downloads matched by increasing sales of headphones, including high-end models from relative newcomers such as Audeze [see p58]. These two on-going events may seem symbiotic, but in fact they remain quite separate, the former driven by audiophiles wishing to access the raw digital masters beaten into shape by the recording studios, the latter a by-product of fashion - it's now 'cool' to wear large, over-ear headphones in public.