[dougmwne]

Let's turn that statement around and instead of thinking about audio bitrates, focus on experience. A great "audiophile" setup can make the performers sound there in the room with you. No matter how much BS the hobby spews, when you hear a really great setup, that guitar truly sounds 6 feet away from you.

Zoom calls do not sound there in the room with you. Microphones are terrible, there's compression artifacts, latency, packet loss, background noise, and tiny speakers. No one could possibly close their eyes and forget that the other person is not there in the room with them, on any POTS or VOIP technology that exists. But what if you could create an audio communications system with an actual illusion of auditory presence. Sounds amazing!

And given that this company is trying to create wall-screen, life size ultra-HD video conferences, I'm pretty sure that "audiophile" exactly what they're going for. Personally as a remote worker, I would absolutely swoon for this.