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For about twenty years, a handful of game consoles arrived with audio hardware that belonged on a component rack rather than under a television — discrete synthesis chips, microphone inputs with tone control, real-time surround encoding, and a high-resolution disc format that was meant to replace the compact disc entirely. Some of it was serious engineering. One of them became a cult CD player only after audiophiles discovered it a decade later, entirely by accident. And almost every one of these features was quietly deleted from the next revision of the same machine.
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For about twenty years, a handful of game consoles arrived with audio hardware that belonged on a component rack rather than under a television — discrete synthesis chips, microphone inputs with tone control, real-time surround encoding, and a high-resolution disc format that was meant to replace the compact disc entirely. Some of it was serious engineering. One of them became a cult CD player only after audiophiles discovered it a decade later, entirely by accident. And almost every one of these features was quietly deleted from the next revision of the same machine.
