Wil, your statement to me “you are either basing your view on early digital, have not ever heard a decent digital set up, or are so invested in the “digital bad/ analogue good” shows me you either did not read my earlier report (Friday) of PET scan findings, or did not understand the significance of such.This is the kind of false dichotomy that gets really tiresome.
I'd also opine that if you've never heard emotionally engaging music through digital playback, you are either basing your view on early digital, have not ever heard a decent digital set up, or are so invested in the "digital bad/analog good" world view as to create a perceptual/prejudicial wall that can't be crossed.
In the study I cited, PET scans proved that conservatives and liberals process the same discordant political policy statement, put to them while in the PET scanner, in different parts of their brains. The significance of this finding is that those who prefer pure analogue over digital probably process what they hear differently than those of you who prefer digital. As I said, the comparison of each group listening to each source in a PET scan has yet to be tried so this is theoretical, but could, if done, prove that neither is “good/bad” just perceived differently in different people. Different strokes for different folks.