A musical quest that began with an MP3 player
It was 2000 when I-O DATA took its first steps into the world of music with the commercialization of an MP3 player.
A quite substantial and long-running track record has followed, with products such as virtual surround speakers.
Since those first steps we've continued to manufacture products that take advantage of our strengths in digital,
storage, networking, and other technologies, for example by developing a server compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA),
which was launched to standardize network connections among audiovisual and other devices, around 2005.
The next step involved distribution of high-resolution files, a format that came into its own with the advent of the Internet.
It was the dawn of a new age in which our technologies were to find application in the world of audio.
As you know, I-O DATA has a universally recognized track record in the development of network storage (NAS) for business and home use. Would this technology resonate in the world of high-resolution audio, let alone high-end audio? The development of the fidata HFAS1 was an experiment in embracing the challenges of the analog and sense-driven world of audio with digital technology.
Getting back to the basics of manufacturing
Soon after it begun in 2012, the fidata project ran into a major obstacle. Individual circuits that should theoretically yield the same results generated different sound output depending on their component and circuit layouts. This was a big surprise for us. We had to get back to the basics of manufacturing to address the demands of this new world, which we found we could not approach by means of a digital approach alone. That is to say, we relied on a process of trial and error to make progress while accumulating expertise one step at a time.
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