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Re: The point I tried to make, but apparently without success...

"On the last page he did remark that what you get from an analogue tape reissued on a CD is essentially the sound of that master tape."

And this is my point. Did they mimick the words "perfect sound forever." Probably not. I did not mean to infer they did. Only that they bought into the marketing hype, as reflected in the quote you provided.

I submit that describing the sound without any criticisms, concluding that it sounds essentially like the master tape, is essentially the same thing as saying that it is perfect. If that is the case, then how can SACD and DVD Audio sound any better than red book c.d., which sounds like the master tape? Presumably, reproduction of the master tape is the goal of any audio media, which, according to Hirsh in your comment, and Pohlmann and Ranada for all these subsequent years, red book compact discs accomplish.

Did compact discs all of a sudden stop sounding like the master tapes with the advent of SACD and DVD Audio? Do SACD and DVD Audio somehow sound better than the master tapes? If so, then they are not accurate, and rather than gushing over the new formats, perhaps Pohlmann and Ranada should inform us they are not accurate. Why does now the medium which used to sound like the master tapes now not sound like the master tapes? Why does it all of a sudden have sonic attributes that it did not have before, which are now less than perfect, at least according to their ears? Did this non-perfection suddenly appear?

Or was it always there, they simply being incapable, or unwilling, to recognize it. Either way, their reliability is called into question. My question stands: Point me to one single critism made by Pohlmann, Ranada, et al. of red book compact disc players before SACD and DVD Audio. Because they certainly have made them, faint as they may be, after SACD and DVD Audio. And, while this is pure conjecture on my part, I detected a little relunctance on their part of their admissions that SACD and DVD Audio sound significantly better than red book c.d.

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