The following guest post comes from Brian M. Nohe, President of SMS Audio.
Consumers want their music whenever, wherever and the digital age has given us the power to make that happen. Consequently, digital audio keeps the music industry in a constant state of flux in which consumers have accepted trading sound to fulfill the now factor.
Every audio format, from analog to digital, has challenges with playing back music to be enjoyed again and again exactly as it was originally laid down inside the recording studio. From scratches and hissing to skips and compression, people associate each format with some level of distortion of the music’s true original sound.
When audio began going the way of digital in the early 1980’s, it brought a wave of convenience to the consumer. However, that convenience came at a compromise.
