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True 24bit/192KHz recording technology.

My audiophile wish? A Rockport Technologies Sirius III in my listening room.

I desperately need a bottomless glass of music titles at my disposal -- and free for eternity.

I'd like to see a new list price for all CD's: $9.99.

Standardized recording and mike placement techniques i.e...New World Records!! The brains behind the recording equipment are more important than any technology!! Also, SACD should be the standard format for all new recordings. It is so analog sounding that DVD-Audio seems like an old picnic player.

New format (SACD/DVD) software available at retail for about USD$15.

Perfect sound forever from a system for just 10000 dollars.

That the HI-REZ format wars would be over so we could get back to the music!

My wish would be to really see IEEE1394b connecting controllers, computers, speakers, and televisions. The CAT5 cables would be relatively cheap and just one would connect anything with anything. The content could be CD at 192Mhz/24-bit multichannel and only one remote would be needed. Remote macros would be programed by a computer program that asks the user questions like: When restoring the volume after muting, do you want to go to the previous volume level or a preset level? The speakers would be comprised of two parts (200hz and up, 200hz, down). The lower frequency speaker could be purchased with room correction algorithms included in the D/A for additional cost. Upgrading could be done at the lower or upper frequency. Rear-projection TVs could be upgraded by sliding in 20lb D-ILA/DLP units, screwing on filters, adding banks of memory chips, replacing the screen, etc. Computers would be used to record, edit, do data/scan rate conversion, and provide a source signal for any output device in the house. And most important, I could afford all of it.

I wish a slew of groundbreaking new technologies in amplication and digital processing will eventually halve the price of all audio/HT equipment across the board, while increasing their sound quality multifold and raising the bar on even the cheapest budget equipment.

I would like my entire collection of CDs to be miraculously transformed into SACDs.

For me, I wish that my hearing does not deteriorate. For the industry: Long live stereo -- to hell with surround sound!

Audio recordings on a digital medium whose retail purchase price actually reflects the recordings cost to produce, and includes a REASONABLE profit margin. Oh, wait, that pricing model is obviously flawed, as it doesn't allow for either price fixing or uninhibited greed . . .

Price drops proportional to the rest of the CE industry.

My wish is that I win the lottery and then do more than just read about this industry's wonders!

To get a digital interconnect that REALLY makes a difference.

That the industry finally realizes that there is no future beyond two-channel stereo.

To remove Sony from the recording industry....including their SACD!! I'm sick of them being involved and that goes for Phillips as well.

I'm wishing for a plethora of truly audiophile-quality computer sound cards

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Fewer music media formats or at least hardware that can play the majority of them. I cannot go out and buy new hardware all the time.

For myself...I wish I could be content (self-control) for what I have on my rig....I have no money left....For the industry....well i hope manufacturers will turn down the prices so I can still buy their products...=)

To own a pair of Martin-Logan Statement e2s -- and have the room for them! Of course, even if I had these, I probably could not afford to power them!

I like the idea of pictures with music, but let's eliminate the TV screen. How about a true 3-dimensional holographic image with a surround system that locates the sound of each instrument coincident with the video image? And while I'm wishing, how about a pension that could include such a system in my budget?

I'm wishing for true high end CD/DVD-Audio/SACD player with digital outputs/inputs.

SACD players and discs become much cheaper and more widespread!

I'd wish that Stereophile's Class A components were energy efficient and sounded their best when not left on all the time. Current technology uses way too much valuable energy.

I'd wish that all new releases would be analog recordings and be available on vinyl.

This is easy: forsaking myopic format allegiances, make decoders/players which can handle all digital formats, both extant and projected (Redbook, SACD, DVD-A, etc,) in a user-transparent, internally-automatic mode. The user interface should be dirt simple: feed it a shiny plastic disk, hit "play," and out comes music!

FOR THE INDUSTRY, A FRIENDLIER ATTITUDE FROM SALE STAFF AT AUDIO SHOPS. FOR MYSELF, TO FINISH MY DEDICATED AUDIO ROOM AND UPGRADE SOME COMPONENTS.