When is digital going to get the soul of music?

"Producing music by interpolation of 1's and 0's is not a perfect thing. Winding a diamond stylus mechanically along a soft groove is not a perfect system either."

That is for sure and a big part of why the two sound inherently different.

By the way, I'm fine with CD format but am not a fan of CGI generated effects in movies for the most part. I prefer Dynavision.

It's very strange that audio is so difficult to reproduce in digital. We are able to make beautiful real like HDTV but not the perfect audio. I suspect that in the future audio DACs will become so complicated (sound processors) only designers will be able to understand principles of operation. Maybe it is time to stop asking. Computer users stopped asking questions long time ago.

The irony of HDTV is that much of the programming content is "dumbed" down or softened for HDTV. All filmed programs/movies are already "softened" simply as a result of being shot on film: film being analogous to music recorded on analog equipment.

Most original programming that's shot in high definition is processed to make it look less sharp.

Too bad digitally recorded music isn't processed to make it sound less harsh like it's video cousin.

But digital recording does not sound harsh, players do.

I wish I could delete my post. I didn't want to contribute to this circular argument.