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Rusty Boudreaux wrote:
"George Deliz" wrote in
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This sounds very interesting. How is this done in practice?
Are there products available that would allow an audiophile to
do this
and about how much would it cost?

I'm not aware of any commercial solution for the audiophile
market. The signal processing details are way beyond the
capabilities of the typical high-end company. This is hard
science, not snake oil. Since the audiophile market is so tiny I
bet we won't see this in consumer applications until mainstream
receivers support it via an ASIC or chipset developed elsewhere.

This is an important point that bears repeating. The total
audiophile market is SO tiny that any company with the financial
wherewithall to do heavy DSP development would not even notice
if the high-end market were to suddenly vanish without a trace.
The size of this market combined with the utter irrational
insanity of it along with its volatility makes it unattractive
for any serious development effort. Basically why should a
company bother trying to cater to a segment that might,
altogether, make up 1% of its potential business yet cost it
tens times it in the trouble it would generate?

There is no innovation in the high-end to speak of, there's
little real development of any sort, there's no scholarly
research, just blind and stumbling intuition, snake oil, magic
arts and mythology.

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