I've lived through the radio era, tape era, the Turntable era and now the DIGITAL era. My search, thoughout my life, Has been the search for PURE SOUND reproduction to my EARS! This can NOT be produced through fricttion, needle against Vinyl, Tape against Player head, electronics in radio reception. etc. THIS is what I've been waiting for. but I also like OWNING the material, co CDs fill the bill. If you've read some of my posts You'll know that I have lots of cassette tapes recorded of past events in my life, so a LOT of this imperfection is in evidence. I'm happy in the current times that this DIGITAL era that I no longer have to put up with the SH*T that used to pass for listening to music before now! What are your thoughts?