Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2021 5:12:08 GMT
The New Era of Digital Music
*Music Holds Permanent while Rolling with Audio Innovations*
As the digital network technology evolving so fast during this past 20 years, one may notice or be convinced that the world of “ Digital Streaming “ is dominating most of the music-related industries now.
1877, Thomas Alva Edison invented the barrel phonograph, the very being of music storage in human history; 1888, Emile Berliner improved this innovating technology by developing the turntable phonograph, via this, the transmission of music storage became much easier and convenient, and promoted the great music commerce around the world, “ Record “ appeared, being copied, being traded, being published, music was being broadcasted in a practical way, at this time, “ Vinyl Disk “ is the “ Record “.
-The Audio Source Revolution l-(Cassette Tape)
Fast forward to 80 years later, during 1960s, the cassette tape was being invented to store the music data, it’s much smaller and easy to carry comparing with vinyl disk, so yeah, it had its glory time, but it didn’t last long, because the even stronger and quality music carrier was preparing to surprise the world.
-The Audio Source Revolution ll-(Compact Disc - Digital Audio)
10 years later, in 1974, CDDA( so-called CD) introduced to the world by Philips(Netherlands) and Sony(Japan), which adopts 16 bit PCM encoding method, and the sampling rate 44.1kHz, this digitalization of music storage was certainly a huge breakthrough, at this time “ CD “ is the “ Record “.
CD stands several advantages, totally easier to record the music data, faster to play, the storage is bigger, because when the analog signals turn into digital ones, they could be compressed, which means you can record multiple tracks in one CD, which made “ Album “ present to the world, and through the CD player to speakers, the digital signals would be transformed back to analog signal again for people to listen.
Given these technological merits, DC had ruled the music industries over 3 decades, and it led the music to a globally commercial path, most of the renowned artist who had passed away or still existing were shining to the fullest during that period, it’s what we called “ Golden Years “ in the music industry.
-The Audio Source Revolution lll-(Digital Network Streaming)
Practical v.s Digital
The concept actually has presented for around 20 years, it’s mainly involved with the network, the electronic device, and the digital music file, “ P2P Service “, “ MP3 File “ are probably the most famous names which would occur in your mind instantly, this type of music file process was founded in 1994, as it’s a digital file, as convenient as it can be, no need the practical turntable, no need the CD player, but there was a time, this file can only be played by computer, therefore, “ Walkman “, “ iPod “, “ MP3 Player “ were developed, people want to enjoy their favorite music anytime, anywhere. And “ P2P “ was the main reason to propel all the modern major online streaming platforms to blossom (Spotify, TIDAL, Qobuz, Amazon Music, Apple Music),
this huge market attracted the record label and technology tycoons to get involved, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Microsoft, and so on, it hit it’s prime around 2010, the global digital music revenue was 5.9 billion US dollars.
Why it’s still changing? - The Music Quality -
With convenience in our hands, what’s next, the quality indeed, as MP3 is the compressed file, the data distortion, which is the thing we don’t like to be seeing in an artwork, and by the network technology keeps evolving, 5G quickens the huge data processing, download a HD film within 10 seconds?! Hence, the streaming platforms started to developed HD music, no distortion in the music data transmission, lossless music file presents the way the artist originally intended, like you sitting in a recording studio as the artist playing, how enjoyable is that?! This kind of lossless music file mostly called “ FLAC “, “ WAV “, “ AAC “, “ MQA “, which adopt 24 bit PCM encoding method, and the sampling rate 96kHz or even 192kHz, they slayed MP3 in a musical way, the new network technology makes downloading or streaming the huge file type of music as a no-brainer.
“ Hi-Fi(High Fidelity) “ and “ Hi-Res(High Resolution) “ which represent those lossless audio sources, the music details, the dynamics, the balanced melodies, all became fairly audible, as Sony said “ High resolution picture has changed the way how people watch movies, now high resolution audio will also change the people listen to their favorite music “, which says, the HD audio source is just a beginning, via headphones, via speakers, how to maintain these music data as original as it should be when passing through the audio system is the focused mission now!
*Coping Mechanism under The Audio Source Revolution III*
Original, it’s the paramount form of any kind of artworks, modern audio system simply includes, player(the source part which can be a professional audio device or computer or laptop or a smartphone), DAC(digital to analog converter which is an seriously important part as it’s responsible for transforming the digital file to the signals which human can hear), amplifier(to amplify the analog signals to push big speakers or hi-end headphones, which need more power to function), then the speakers or headphones, to generate music sounds for people to enjoy, so, actually all these parts are important to the real music enjoyment, but the most important two are “ THE SOURCE PART “ & “ THE SIGNAL TRANSFORMATION PART “.
Why the player matters to an audio system?
The player(streamer) is the first gate that the HD music source would get through from the streaming platforms, which means the music data stands optimally original during this phase, the data still presented as digital signal at this time, thus, “ Network “ & “ Power “, “ which are the most significant factors would impact the audio original presence.
Network, the brain of audio source, as we all living in the 2021 now, IoT is covering everything in the globe as possible as it is, especially the digital and electronic equipment, without good network, the performance can be lowering down to an extent which you’d rather to turn off it, network can be seen as two types, wired and wireless, which leads to different forms of the audio appliances, as one can imagine, the real connection can be more stable than the invisible one, on wireless side, Wi-Fi is the more recommendable, since it only does transmission and without compress the data which is being transferred, but it’s somewhat not stabilized, the router may suddenly shut down or get interfered, Bluetooth for sure, it can be more solidified, but it does compressed the data for transmitting, as we all want the intact body of the music data, Bluetooth isn’t the first option though, one the wired side, the Ethernet is the most popular one, however the practical connection can still hold interference, which is more the cable material, it’s hard to make the cable only do the transmission without any disturbance, that’s why “ Network Switch “ is being born, by purifying the network signals which transmitted from the router, using specialized clock control circuit module to make the data transmission have no latency, and lower the jitter effect, because when the transmitting speed is quite fast, like GbE, it saves time consumption, but the inference can be more impactful, network switch is to fix that problem, maintaining the signal quality while fast transmitting digital data.
Power, an even serious factor, the bloodstream of audio source, all modern device requires electrical power, no matter big or small, it’s very critical to take care of the power part, as it can influence too many things back-end, to make a power signal stable and natural, linear power supply is the key player for it, you like the bloodstream in your device is smoothly moving, instead of messily bumping, by applying a fully symmetric main circuit design could be favorable, to reduce the inside machine noise, saving power consumption, and the heat-sink is playing an important role here too, if CPU’s temperature goes up too high, it’s like your heartbeat going too fast, it may ruin the functionality, the mission of linear power supply is to stabilize the electrical power signals from your wall which sent by the government, and keep the as natural as it can, like a forest, generating oxygen to the earth, and being stable to raise lots of difference species, you might’ve heard that people talking about managing a good audio system starts from managing the power source, it’s so true, power source makes network switch and audio player function musically well, to work in the most proper way.
let the computer to the processing, let the smartphone to the operating, let the audio streamer and music server do the professional playing, let us enjoy The New Era of Digital Music intactly and musically.
www.silent-angel-audio.com/
*Music Holds Permanent while Rolling with Audio Innovations*
As the digital network technology evolving so fast during this past 20 years, one may notice or be convinced that the world of “ Digital Streaming “ is dominating most of the music-related industries now.
1877, Thomas Alva Edison invented the barrel phonograph, the very being of music storage in human history; 1888, Emile Berliner improved this innovating technology by developing the turntable phonograph, via this, the transmission of music storage became much easier and convenient, and promoted the great music commerce around the world, “ Record “ appeared, being copied, being traded, being published, music was being broadcasted in a practical way, at this time, “ Vinyl Disk “ is the “ Record “.
-The Audio Source Revolution l-(Cassette Tape)
Fast forward to 80 years later, during 1960s, the cassette tape was being invented to store the music data, it’s much smaller and easy to carry comparing with vinyl disk, so yeah, it had its glory time, but it didn’t last long, because the even stronger and quality music carrier was preparing to surprise the world.
-The Audio Source Revolution ll-(Compact Disc - Digital Audio)
10 years later, in 1974, CDDA( so-called CD) introduced to the world by Philips(Netherlands) and Sony(Japan), which adopts 16 bit PCM encoding method, and the sampling rate 44.1kHz, this digitalization of music storage was certainly a huge breakthrough, at this time “ CD “ is the “ Record “.
CD stands several advantages, totally easier to record the music data, faster to play, the storage is bigger, because when the analog signals turn into digital ones, they could be compressed, which means you can record multiple tracks in one CD, which made “ Album “ present to the world, and through the CD player to speakers, the digital signals would be transformed back to analog signal again for people to listen.
Given these technological merits, DC had ruled the music industries over 3 decades, and it led the music to a globally commercial path, most of the renowned artist who had passed away or still existing were shining to the fullest during that period, it’s what we called “ Golden Years “ in the music industry.
-The Audio Source Revolution lll-(Digital Network Streaming)
Practical v.s Digital
The concept actually has presented for around 20 years, it’s mainly involved with the network, the electronic device, and the digital music file, “ P2P Service “, “ MP3 File “ are probably the most famous names which would occur in your mind instantly, this type of music file process was founded in 1994, as it’s a digital file, as convenient as it can be, no need the practical turntable, no need the CD player, but there was a time, this file can only be played by computer, therefore, “ Walkman “, “ iPod “, “ MP3 Player “ were developed, people want to enjoy their favorite music anytime, anywhere. And “ P2P “ was the main reason to propel all the modern major online streaming platforms to blossom (Spotify, TIDAL, Qobuz, Amazon Music, Apple Music),
this huge market attracted the record label and technology tycoons to get involved, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Microsoft, and so on, it hit it’s prime around 2010, the global digital music revenue was 5.9 billion US dollars.
Why it’s still changing? - The Music Quality -
With convenience in our hands, what’s next, the quality indeed, as MP3 is the compressed file, the data distortion, which is the thing we don’t like to be seeing in an artwork, and by the network technology keeps evolving, 5G quickens the huge data processing, download a HD film within 10 seconds?! Hence, the streaming platforms started to developed HD music, no distortion in the music data transmission, lossless music file presents the way the artist originally intended, like you sitting in a recording studio as the artist playing, how enjoyable is that?! This kind of lossless music file mostly called “ FLAC “, “ WAV “, “ AAC “, “ MQA “, which adopt 24 bit PCM encoding method, and the sampling rate 96kHz or even 192kHz, they slayed MP3 in a musical way, the new network technology makes downloading or streaming the huge file type of music as a no-brainer.
“ Hi-Fi(High Fidelity) “ and “ Hi-Res(High Resolution) “ which represent those lossless audio sources, the music details, the dynamics, the balanced melodies, all became fairly audible, as Sony said “ High resolution picture has changed the way how people watch movies, now high resolution audio will also change the people listen to their favorite music “, which says, the HD audio source is just a beginning, via headphones, via speakers, how to maintain these music data as original as it should be when passing through the audio system is the focused mission now!
*Coping Mechanism under The Audio Source Revolution III*
Original, it’s the paramount form of any kind of artworks, modern audio system simply includes, player(the source part which can be a professional audio device or computer or laptop or a smartphone), DAC(digital to analog converter which is an seriously important part as it’s responsible for transforming the digital file to the signals which human can hear), amplifier(to amplify the analog signals to push big speakers or hi-end headphones, which need more power to function), then the speakers or headphones, to generate music sounds for people to enjoy, so, actually all these parts are important to the real music enjoyment, but the most important two are “ THE SOURCE PART “ & “ THE SIGNAL TRANSFORMATION PART “.
Why the player matters to an audio system?
The player(streamer) is the first gate that the HD music source would get through from the streaming platforms, which means the music data stands optimally original during this phase, the data still presented as digital signal at this time, thus, “ Network “ & “ Power “, “ which are the most significant factors would impact the audio original presence.
Network, the brain of audio source, as we all living in the 2021 now, IoT is covering everything in the globe as possible as it is, especially the digital and electronic equipment, without good network, the performance can be lowering down to an extent which you’d rather to turn off it, network can be seen as two types, wired and wireless, which leads to different forms of the audio appliances, as one can imagine, the real connection can be more stable than the invisible one, on wireless side, Wi-Fi is the more recommendable, since it only does transmission and without compress the data which is being transferred, but it’s somewhat not stabilized, the router may suddenly shut down or get interfered, Bluetooth for sure, it can be more solidified, but it does compressed the data for transmitting, as we all want the intact body of the music data, Bluetooth isn’t the first option though, one the wired side, the Ethernet is the most popular one, however the practical connection can still hold interference, which is more the cable material, it’s hard to make the cable only do the transmission without any disturbance, that’s why “ Network Switch “ is being born, by purifying the network signals which transmitted from the router, using specialized clock control circuit module to make the data transmission have no latency, and lower the jitter effect, because when the transmitting speed is quite fast, like GbE, it saves time consumption, but the inference can be more impactful, network switch is to fix that problem, maintaining the signal quality while fast transmitting digital data.
Power, an even serious factor, the bloodstream of audio source, all modern device requires electrical power, no matter big or small, it’s very critical to take care of the power part, as it can influence too many things back-end, to make a power signal stable and natural, linear power supply is the key player for it, you like the bloodstream in your device is smoothly moving, instead of messily bumping, by applying a fully symmetric main circuit design could be favorable, to reduce the inside machine noise, saving power consumption, and the heat-sink is playing an important role here too, if CPU’s temperature goes up too high, it’s like your heartbeat going too fast, it may ruin the functionality, the mission of linear power supply is to stabilize the electrical power signals from your wall which sent by the government, and keep the as natural as it can, like a forest, generating oxygen to the earth, and being stable to raise lots of difference species, you might’ve heard that people talking about managing a good audio system starts from managing the power source, it’s so true, power source makes network switch and audio player function musically well, to work in the most proper way.
let the computer to the processing, let the smartphone to the operating, let the audio streamer and music server do the professional playing, let us enjoy The New Era of Digital Music intactly and musically.
www.silent-angel-audio.com/