Hi
To me the purpose of a discussion is either to convince or be convinced..Else there is no reason for debate or discussion. We discuss to advance our points or to understand the other point. It eventually leads, if the mind is open to better comprehension and to a revision of position.
I think you are setting yourself up for a huge loss if you think, in audio, that discussion could/should lead to convince/be convinced. It won't, sadly.
The BEST you or anyone can do is find out new things, to see our familiar viewpoints from another angle,
from an angle we may not have considered before. I crave and hope for that, I WANT to see things from new viewpoints, that my understanding as a whole can grow.
I thinks that is rather rare tho, most only want to prop up their pre-existing POV. And make themselves right in the process. (interesting human psychology point...have you ever noticed a common way people make themselves right?? By making others wrong. Sad eh. Their own argument does not have merit enough to support itself, so all that is left is make the other wrong than be intrinsically right. Trouble is, it seems to come part and parcel with a lack of self inspection...so good luck trying to point that out to them)
. I , for one find the Mercury Ling Presence CDs and SACD at least equal to their LP counterparts ( I worded it more strongly some time ago but I have friends on this forum so ...) , recently ripped 50 or 60 of these to my ($50 each) 1 TB Drives in RAID and am enjoying those often beautiful, superlatively recorded and performed (a rarity) piece of classical music ...
SERIOUS point here. (except for copyright, don't know enough about it)
there is a business potential surely??
(accepting that digital can put out a virtually indistinguishable replica) why not make, even amongst friends only or 'insiders' available these old, no longer available quality stuff that everyone raves about??
Take the R2R stuff (dunno if this was the thread where I saked these type of things and was ignored...people would rather bicker and get all wounded)...comments like 'wow, beats ANYTHING-digital or anlog-hands down!'
Ok, you gotta buy the R2R machine, THEN you gotta buy the tapes!! Not a huge range to pick from, and what % of what is available would you buy
anyway not just because it is on R2R and magnificent;ly recorded???
Let's say they are not available, but YOU have them, then make digital copies. Ok, not as good as the original, but I'd never have the original anyway, so how the heckk would I know? At least I'd have them.
A friend of mine, really into classical yada yada, tons of early recordings, 78s and cylinders etc etc,
rare old stuff. Again I don't know about copyright on something no longer available, 80 years old etc etc, but I could never work out why he did not make these recordings available to others who could NEVER access them in any other way.