Originally Posted by: ddaloiaThat's really is too bad for the kids and any other music enthusiast. You can't truly get the full affect of listening to Dark Side of The Moon (or whatever your cup of tea) listening to an mp3 or other lossy format. So much tone is lost compressing audio. Too bad some of these popular players don't allow playback of lossless formats like flac. Apple, MS and friends may be afraid of the whole open source things, but hopefully it will catch on.

..I agree, it's a shame, I still waiting for the right balance between digital and sound quality to come out. I've never heard of SACD, it wanna check that out!
I was talking to a massage therapist who told me when she used to play this one Beatles song with farm animals in it on her record player, her dog would bark every time. Then when she got the same song on CD, the dog wouldn't bark anymore when that part came on so there's definately something missing in digital that most of us don't even catch. It's the heart, soul and spirit of the music that isn't fully recognized in digital, I think.