Why audio engineers need to stop debating the merits of analog vs digital and why it doesn't matter, at all, ever....
1. Live music sounds better than recorded music...... Go see your local symphony in their concert hall, frequently, they sound really f##$in good, almost all the time, especially if you live in a big city.
2. Musicans that can play well, sound better than crappy musicians, even after they've been Tool'd n Tune'd. But my little cousin swears that Shania Twain is the best singer in the world....
3. Most people can't tell a 128K MP3 from 24/96, let alone CD audio.... and they listen to music on $4 pos ear buds thown in with their iPod
4. If a song rocks, it could have been recorded on that little brown Fisher-Price cassette recorder you used to play the read along story book cassettes when you were 3...
5. Most of our girl friends can barley pick out the snare drum from the rhythm guitar (although mine has now been trained to even pick out a Wulitzer from a Rhodes)
Do you think they really give a S*&T that you tracked it "analog", now imagine if she wasn't your girlfriend. She's more impressed with who you tracked than what you tracked. Just make sure to keep all girlfriends away from drummers, and all drummers away from girlfriend....
6. Most people think their $30 sattelite with a sub speakers for their computer are "hi fi", and wow those iPod docking stations, what amazing sound, and I personally love to listen to music in my car on the highway and with all the road noise and traffic I find I can really focus on the finer elements in the music.
7. When a DJ plays your track (usually an mp3 thess days) on the radio or in a club, the sound will be even, further "degraded", but suprisingly, this "ultra degraded" track, will have the most impact....
8. Why pay for music when I can download it for free?