Dave,

I'm glad you typed all that so I didn't have to. :-)

I agree.

A properly dithered 16 bit 44.1 Ksps digital works as well as an analog
system with 94 dB SNR and 20 kHz bandpass.

Due to the dithering, there is no crunchiness or stair steps or any of
that, there is only noise, just like an analog system. To say it
technically, the dithering converts the quantizing non-linearity into
random noise.

Anyone who does not believe that does not understand the Nyquist
theorem and dithering.


Digital is the best thing that ever happened to audio.

Mark