"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Horsefeathers. Good digital has far more dynamic range, and therefore its
far easier to run with lots of headroom.

If distortion occurs it is very brash and sounds very flawed.

If you can set levels to avoid that, how incompetent are you, anyway?

"Digital preserves music
the way that formaldehyde preserves frogs. You kill it,
and it lasts forever."

Nonsense. The worst thing that can be said about good digital is that the
signal that is played back is indistinguishable from the signal that was
recorded.
Arny, in support of your point, I relate the following. I have been using a
Sound Devices 744T to record musicians in public places in NY. I've made a
number of beginner's mistakes. But with two stage optical limiting, and
immense headroom in the mike circuits, the sound is still impeccable. A
friend of mine, a tubophile, remarks that it doesn't sound like solid state.
It doesn't sound like anything. It is simply a superb recording device.