Quantum computing, as far as I know, affects the processing of data, not the encoding of it.
More likely quantum and AI will be used to better understand how we hear and design various different encoding mechanisms, but I don't see this as coming to a DAC near me directly.
We're in a remarkably great place in terms of digital music. The price of storage is very cheap, network speed inside and to our homes is amazing. I remember when having a home network switch at 10 Mbits/s was fast. Now we have 10 GigE, a factor of 100 faster inside our homes!! Not to mention how many CD's' we can store for pennies.
I think the frontier in DAC computation, encoding and transmission has been pushed far enough, now it's all in the analog stages.
More likely quantum and AI will be used to better understand how we hear and design various different encoding mechanisms, but I don't see this as coming to a DAC near me directly.
We're in a remarkably great place in terms of digital music. The price of storage is very cheap, network speed inside and to our homes is amazing. I remember when having a home network switch at 10 Mbits/s was fast. Now we have 10 GigE, a factor of 100 faster inside our homes!! Not to mention how many CD's' we can store for pennies.
I think the frontier in DAC computation, encoding and transmission has been pushed far enough, now it's all in the analog stages.