High Fidelity Pure Audio, occasionally abbreviated as HFPA, is a marketing initiative, spearheaded by

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and

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, for audio-only

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s. Launched in 2013 as a potential successor to the

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(CD), it has been compared with DVD-Audio and SACD, which had similar aims. HFPA is encoded as 24-bit/96 kHz or 24-bit/192 kHz linear PCM (" high-resolution audio"), optionally losslessly compressed with Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio. HFPA discs are compatible with existing Blu-ray players. ''Pure Audio Blu-ray'' refers to a different initiative (but with some goals in common) launched by ''msm-studios'' in Germany in 2009. As of November 2019,

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is the most prolific publisher on the format, with Beethoven 250 having three Blu-ray audio discs.

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