Music Consumption Shifts to Convenience

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The DVD Forum's and Sony's SACD formats for high-resolution digital audio failed in 1999

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In 1999 , music consumption was shifting in a new direction.

As home internet connections got faster, improvements in audio compression made it trivial to download a song that sounded closer to CD quality at a time than everyone was used to hearing from smaller files.

The idea that CD audio was inherently flawed and could be better goes back to roughly the mid-1990s .

SACD was a premium audiophile product at launch, with Sony 's first players retailing for $4,000 to $5,000 .

Sony : "We have no intention of starting a format war with DVD Audio , and we do not expect one to occur" By 2007 , The Guardian decreed that DVD Audio was extinct and demand for SACd was minimal.

If you're at all interested in SACDs, the playback hardware is a lot more accessible and inexpensive than you might think.

Outside of select Sony Blu-ray players, the market is centered around high-end players from the likes of Denon , Marantz , Yahama , Technics , and Luxman .

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