Welcome back to the ProRec Roundtable, the quarterly convention of the ProRec Collective Consciousness. This summer, we have Joel Braverman, Lionel Dumond, Pete Leoni, Bob Lichty, Ted Perlman, Rip Rowan, and Garry Simmons. OK, guys, gloves off. Here comes the topic: Currently the consumer audio market is being pulled from two directions. The pro audio manufacturers have released Digital Versatile Disc - DVD - capable of better-than-CD-quality 24 bits @ 96 KHz sampling rate. On the other hand, the Internet has given us the less-than-CD-quality MP3 compressed audio format. Over the last year we have seen an explosion in demand for MP3s - on some search engines, the term "MP3" is the single most searched-for...

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