In a way, all audio is a distortion. At the moment, we don't reproduce
a wavefront exactly.. and microphones and speakers have a lot of
distortion. Sitting in your listening room, you are hearing a distorted
version of the concert.

Digital audio has very little measured distortion... from the output of
the microphone to the input to the speakers. But in the end you still
have a distorted perspective.

Analog has more measured distortion from the mic out to the speaker in.

One distorted version versus another.

If analog distortion somehow compensates for distortion in microphones
and speakers, *relative to the significant patterns for a given
listener*, then the analog version will be closer to the original
experience, *relative to that listener*.

Some people find that using digital audio best captures the original
experience. Don't you think that, in the end, they are making a
judgment call?.. seeing as they are listening to a distorted version
anyway (thanks to mics and speakers).

I would be curious to know how exactly analog distortion compensates,
if that is indeed what is happening.

Mike