Anonymous

UK

IT manager

Peter says: "...we have progressed from awful analogue recordings on plastic discs demanding vast amounts of storage space, to a digital world with high-quality recordings preserved forever on hard drives..."

Sorry, but wrong on both counts. Many analogue recordings are of very high quality, and many digital recordings are poor quality. mp3, for example, is just not a high quality format, full stop. What needs considering is the skill with which the recording was made. Sir George Martin recorded The Beatles on analog & those are vastly superior to some modern digital recordings made by people with no clue about microphone placement etc.