The British mag Electronics World had a project like this a couple of years back using accelerometers for motion detection. I'll dig through my archives tomorrow and see if I can find it. I'm not sure how successful it was sonically.

Most new 24 bit converters have trouble bettering the old BB PCM63 20 bit chips, but I gotta admit are usually a lot cheaper. 144 dB dynamic range? Wheres that liquid nitrogen..... [reference to the 2V output of a CDP, 144dB DR is equivalent to the thermal noise of a 6.9 ohm resistor at room...

I really think it is a case of, does the average consumer see any benefit to the $$$ outlaid?. In most cases, in my experience, no. I took my DVD (Pioneer 535) to my brothers house today to watch a movie, and also to see how it compared to his PS2. His wife could not see any difference...

I really admire James craftsmanship and dedication, and have told him so before on the Asylum. Can't wait to see what he does next. But for extreme, take a look at Mr Roggerios system. Those big things at the back are his basshorns driven by 6 Altec 515's per side...

I reckon for music it's a great big marketing inspired novelty, simply to sell you more gear, and different versions of the software. Hell, most producers and bands couldn't make a good sounding record if their lives depended on it. So give them 5.1,6.1,7.1 or 862.1 and we'll simply have aural...

I've been away for a while so if this has already been said, sorry. SACD does have copy protection, but due to the way it's encoded, the copy protection info does not have to be a part of the audio signal, so it's inaudible. Sony are very coy about this but Tom Meitner said so in an interview...

Actually the DSD technology behind SACD is not new. At the time of CD's public relese back in 1983, the DBX company (yes, the noise reduction people) had a digital recorder/player using almost identical technology as Sony does now. It was called the DBX 700 and it sampled a single bit at 700kHz...