Working in cooperation with major music companies and The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group will sponsor a special Hi-Res Audio Pavilion at CES 2017 in Las Vegas.
Sometimes it seems like everything old is new again—for instance, during the summer when all the sequels come out, or when you walk into the (increasingly rare) local music shop and find new vinyl records flying out the door. Vinyl has been an interesting success story over the last few years—revenues from new records were $416 million last year, their highest point since 1988—but those sales are still a drop in the bucket compared to 2015's digital sales: $2.3 billion for digital singles and albums, and $1.5 billion for the CD. Still, there's no denying vinyl is back—and it's not the only aged audio format that's returned from the brink.
"If you go into [the Tacoma Dome] unprepared, you will have a horrible night. Let's just say we had a great night, even though everyone was feeding us horror stories!" — Demetrius Moore, FOH engineer for Drake
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