Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2014/11/11

DXD was first created and developed in 2003 by Merging Technologies as an innovative alternative to music formats available at that time. Since 2004, most music albums recorded in the DXD format have been recorded and edited in DXD then converted to the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format, before being released on Super Audio CD’s (SACD’s).
A strong catalog of highest quality music has been built up using DXD technology and Promates stock a large number of high quality DXD recorded albums. Of course, such high quality sound recordings mean much larger file sizes and MD of Promates Peter Scheelke explained how modern technology is allowing Promates to offer this industry-grade standard to consumers for the first time. “A typical DXD album is much larger than a standard MP3 or AAC album,” explains Peter adding that ”a DXD album is typically around 5 Gigabytes of data, which made it impractical to try and fit on a typical CD (…), however, with vastly improved Internet technology and a reliable internet connection, it is now possible to download these albums in entirety in about 1+ hour.”
Via its new website, Promates is now offering a top quality line of DXD quality downloads direct to customers for the first time from some of the leading recording companies. Promates Music Store are also seeking more recording labels who want to take advantage of this outstanding new medium. “We’re excited to bring this new technology to our customers and we hope they will experience this music reproduced as perfectly as the day it was first played,” stated Mr Scheelke.

For more information: https://www.promates.com/

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