Private radio

摘要

A decade ago, Sony and Philips were aggressively pushing the Super Audio Compact Disc, their hoped-for high-resolution replacement for the venerable Red Book CD. The two companies poured enormous engineering and marketing resources into an effort that could not have come at a more inopportune time. The subtle improvements of SACD were lost on most listeners, who were generally engaged in an orgy of free low-resolution downloading that continues to this day.Lengthy experiments with Olive musi( servers, some installations of Sonos products, and auditions of Meridian's Sooloos system at trade shows have provoked me into pursuing low-cost alternatives among music servers. Plus, for several years now, Mark Levinson has conducted all his audio demonstrations using a laptop computer as a source. 'The computer is the natural home for digital audio,' he says.