We are witnessing the dawn of dramatic format changes for audio delivery. On the one hand, we now have streaming audio and, on the other hand, we have the movement away from compressed digital formats toward higher-resolution digital files. The CD is beyond mature and now in decline, and we are also witnessing a fairly widespread questioning as to whether the 16-bit, 44.1 kHz CD format is/was/will be adequate for delivering the best audio possible. I have been vocal about my enthusiasm for higher-resolution audio delivery. While the jury is very hung up on whether going beyond 44.1 kHz, or whether 24-bit "matters," (no one ever seems to want or be able to define "matters" in these discussions), I very much welcome any advancement that is oriented around building a culture of popular interest in sound quality again. Nothing hurts appreciation of the art of making records more than people being told not to care about how the music sounds. It's a long path to deliver the remedial sonic education needed to get people really listening again. If one person has got out his machete and started to clear the trail, it's been Neil Young, swinging his PONO high-res audio playback device at the weedy thicket of data-compressed files that make up today's digital audio landscape.