Soleil Lapierre wrote: What is "AIR"? What is "real"? I say that CDs sound more real because
there is little air involved - at least with electronic instruments no acoustic pickups are needed, cutting that troublesome and distorting air out of the picture all the way until your speakers.
------------- Dude, vocals and instruments depend on air for sound! :-) You're not going to win on this point. sound-->air--->analog recording captures whole wave-->good playback system-->air sound-->air--->digital recording crunches wave into "on and off" signals-->good playback system-->air On the plus side, CD's aren't destroyed by needles, and most human ears in the human marketplace can't tell the difference anyway. Except for us KW audiophiles, of course! amir