"Iain Churches" wrote in message



That's it in a nutshell, The potential for CD is
enormous.

Two words: sonically transparent.

But this potential is often not reached due to
a less than good final product.

Actually, the potential of the CD format is *never* reached in the final
product.

Sad too is the fact that
most people are perfectly happy with what they buy, and don't really care.

As a rule, not even live performances are up to the potential for the CD
format. As a rule, recordings of live performances are audibly trashed by
the time they reach the mic cables, and generally things go downhill after
that.