Rumors that Apple will embrace hi-res streaming audio are stirring up a decades-old debate among audiophiles like me: Does digital reproduction really sacrifice some essential life from music, as vinyl purists claim? Or will it prove — in the fashion of dogmatically atheist scientists — that the ineffable “presence” of analog music has been a nostalgic superstition all along?
The truth is, decades of digital reproduction may have already shifted our entire culture against really caring.
The decline of…
Can hi-res streaming turn digital from an enemy of sound to its new best friend?
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