![]() Here’s where we were before the 800-pound gorilla entered the fray: But Amazon upended ALL of the previous efforts to standardize what “hi-res audio” and “hi-res music” actually are. It wasn’t considered “high-definition” or “high-resolution” back in 1982 when CDs were introduced by Sony and Phillips as the first digital consumer audio format and it wasn’t considered HD by NARAS, the CEA/CTA, the DEG, and the record labels when they finally agreed on a definition and issued a press release with their definition several years ago (HD is basically anything “better than CD spec”), and it wasn’t HD-Audio according to the Japan Audio Society when they began promoting the HD-Audio logo for their new generation of “hi-res audio” hardware. In my last blog post, I lamented the confusion that Amazon has wrought on the world of HD-Audio with their reclassification of Redbook audio as “HD”. ![]()
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