[bob]

Anthony Tommasini, a classical music reviewer, looks at the state of
audio:

http://snipurl.com/1u5mx

He frames his article with a false comparison between Stereo Review
and Gramophone, but in between he makes some cogent observations. One
such:

"Any discussion of recording technology has to note one intriguing
quirk in the story: Few musicians have been audiophiles. More than the
average music-loving amateur, working musicians understand the big gap
between recorded music and the real thing. They can listen through the
inadequacies of any recording and focus on what they want to hear."

bob