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----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Duane Goldman" <[log in to unmask]> > Well lets hope that at some point the sound quality becomes paramount. It > surely isn't using less than thoroughly cleaner recordings transferred to > current digital formats. Analog technology is still the more accurate > representation available whether or not Sony & Phillips agree; and they > were never interested in sound quality, only in a new product to sell. > Somewhere the people involved got sidetracked by convenience & forgot to > listen to the product, at least I hope that's the reason. Well, as I understand it (and I have to admit that after 60 years of (ab)use and two serious head injuries, I no longer have the hearing left to tell for sure), there is a loss of accuracy as far as the fine details of the waveform are concerned...this is, in fact, mathematically inevitable. However, the human ear and the human mind which interprets the information are not capable of hearing any identifiable differences. In fact, in most cases where listeners speak of a "digital sound" what they are actually hearing is not the result of the A/D-conversion inaccuracy...it is actually created by engineers trying to reconstruct the original sound to please modern listeners (in their opinion)! ...stevenc