Original sentence: For instance, the ability to transport high-quality digital audio information quickly between devices is far well outside the capabilities of the MIDI spec, yet S/PDIF does not provide a standard means of transmitting non-audio information.It is believed by some that there is resistence to adopting a new standard by some of the larger companies, but few will disagree that a new standard to replace the over 20 year old MIDI spec is important.The establishment of a new musical interface hardware standard is believed overdue since MIDI is too limited to achieve the needs of modern electronic musical instruments