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CD rising quantization distortion over lowest 30db several percent or more=bad sonic news

That doesn't leave enough dynamic range for Redbook to be useable for decent SQ recording as the pros have acknowledged en masse for going on a decade now. This is a distortion mechanism which does not apply to analog media such as LP, btw.

The sonic effect of rising quantization distortion at lower levels in some ways is analogous to that of crossover distortion in amplifiers but is actually more damaging to low level detail (microdetail).

And sixteen bits of resolution is seldom actually delivered by Redbook media due to requantization, equalization, and sometimes mixing even with 24 bit mastering.

Then there is the sonic thumbprint caused by brick wall filtering causing severe ringing at the Nyquist rate and seriously altering the nature of high frequencies passed through this processing.

Audio professionals have seen the light and have abandoned the inadequate 16 bit 44.1 - 48 ks/s standard years ago for serious recording applications.

How is it a justification to embrace Redbook when the best thing that can be said about it is that only some otherwise magnificent recordings are not completely degraded by being passed through it? That sounds like a reason to reject it to me.

'Perfect Sound Forever'...? My ass.

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