Take an inventory of your personal digital devices you use to record and play music on or use for other digital media. If you could have one new digital audio device, what would it be?

Here's a research problem for you. In this chapter you learned the audio sampling and bit rate for a CD. With this information, search the web, and see if you can find out how compact discs store digital audio. Is a silver or gold CD better? For openers check out:

MAM-A

http://mitsuicdr.com

This is the MAM-A web site. MAM-A is the world's leading producer of recordable CDs, and it offers a large amount of information about CDs.

Your research in this area will come in handy when you get to chapter 5.