Thursday, 20 October 2005

The Resolution Project . .  In the past few years, one of the most hotly debated topics on pro audio Internet forums has been high-resolution audio and its effect (or lack of) on everything from audio sales to listeners' physical and mental health. Conspicuously absent has been a verifiable resolution comparison method accessible by end-users. And while those who have access to expensive, higher-resolution audio equipment generally agree that “high-rez” audio is important for archiving, many say that “the masses” or “the iPod generation” either cannot hear the difference in quality between 192kHz/24-bit audio and low bit-rate MP3 files, or they simply do not care. Meanwhile, those who do not have access to expensive, higher-resolution audio equipment argue that the capture medium is irrelevant if the artistic merit is lacking. Enter Generator LLC, a consulting firm dedicated to product creation and development. Founder and producer John Calder has a background in major-label audio engineering, combined with experience as a product specialist, advertising writer, marketing director and product creator. He also witnessed format war debates first-hand when he was the marketing director at Minnetonka Audio Software Inc., creating the discWelder DVD-authoring product line. Minnetonka is well-known for its software encoding products for DTS, AC-3 and MLP, so Calder was in an excellent position to observe the need for a tool that would let end-users compare audio captures at various resolutions with different distribution formats. The tool for the job was a DVD-A disc called The Resolution Project. [Via MixCurrentIssue] Australian Government lays down digital radio framework . .  The Australian Government is pushing for the introduction in Digital Radio across the country starting off in major metropolitan areas. Radio is the only mainstream broadcasting platform to not make the switch to digital, and with rising competition from internet radio and radio over mobile devices, it's time that they stepped up to the plate. Adapting the European Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard, aka Eureka 147, Australia will be implementing a terrestrial based framework. [Via Droxy (Digital Radio)] Fascinating. DAB under Eureaka 147 has been thought to be dead (due to lack of consumer interest) for some time in Canada. With the success of Eureka 147 in the UK and now this announcement is there a possibility of a renewal?

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