[dusted]

Yes, now we just need mathematically pure materials... Like..

Wires without resistance, capacitance and inductance. Resistors without capacitance and inductance. Capacitors without resistance and inductance. Inductors without capacitance or resistance.

While we're at it, semiconductors with perfect linearity and so on and so on..

I'm not going to argue that audiophiles generally achieve much of these, or even that it's especially important for the perceived audio quality.. But, perfectly recording and reproducing anything is still not possible, not in audio, not in video.

[CamperBob2]

But, perfectly recording and reproducing anything is still not possible, not in audio, not in video.

Which is an argument in favor of getting the signal into the digital domain as early as possible and maintaining it there for as long as possible.

The audiophile's stereotypical myth of analog supremacy is the assumption that the opposite is somehow true. Weird, but everybody needs a hobby.

[dusted]

I agree. I was not arguing against digital storage. Only against the sentiment that "just do digital and all problems are solved".. well, the storage, transport and editing is solved.. The analog problems are not solved, nor solvable, only optimizeable to a degree where further optimization becomes irrelevant, microphones/ADCs/DACs/Amplifiers/Speakers still have analog components that are inherently imperfect.

[Sporktacular]

And that doesn't even consider the effects of jitter of the word clock that cannot exist if everything stays in the analog domain.

There are costs associated with digital that, like with analog, must be managed.