Albert,
I agree with your assessment that CD format is the limiting factor, not digital itself.
Still, technology details aside, many CDs do sound better to me than their lp equivalents in practice (and vice versa).
There is no practical winner in all cases. Just because a format has a particular capacity does not mean that it is always fully utilized to best effect. That is the case with both digital and analog recording products. There are good and bad products in any format.
Practically, what matters to me is what my copy of Seventh Sojourn or The Planets actually sounds like, not what the format it is encoded on is capable of doing.
The internet along with high bandwidth connections into the average home along with greater capacity storage devices is already starting to change things considerably, I think.
One thing that concerns me though is why should any company provide an audiophile affordable high quality digital sources similar to records when we're willing to shell out
tens of thousands apparently in order to get it? That doesn't make sense to me and does worry me actually quite a bit.
I agree with your assessment that CD format is the limiting factor, not digital itself.
Still, technology details aside, many CDs do sound better to me than their lp equivalents in practice (and vice versa).
There is no practical winner in all cases. Just because a format has a particular capacity does not mean that it is always fully utilized to best effect. That is the case with both digital and analog recording products. There are good and bad products in any format.
Practically, what matters to me is what my copy of Seventh Sojourn or The Planets actually sounds like, not what the format it is encoded on is capable of doing.
The internet along with high bandwidth connections into the average home along with greater capacity storage devices is already starting to change things considerably, I think.
One thing that concerns me though is why should any company provide an audiophile affordable high quality digital sources similar to records when we're willing to shell out
tens of thousands apparently in order to get it? That doesn't make sense to me and does worry me actually quite a bit.