I could not resist to put this. Neil Young, as usual, genius and figure:

"The CD was a disaster but it got worse with the MP3. It is a tragedy that people listen to music on computers or on those gadgets. There are real sound, are like those plastic toys sold in supermarkets. We let the computer companies define what a good sound and have shown that they have no idea of high fidelity. They make very nice machines but they sound like shit. Guess what? I was at Steve Jobs, Apple's chief. And in his salon had LPs and a turntable "
(Neil Young to Diego A. Manrique, El Pais)
Copypasta blog I'd like.
What do you say to you?. Posts eggs dragging along the ground to make a groove (hack around like a dog, come on), also copypasteo the comment that I left it in the original post:
"We do not entirely agree with his opinion radikal: Computerization has made it a very great service to music and its dissemination, and that no one can deny.
Today it is so normal to have to spend an hour or more public transport ride to work or college, having at hand a portable device that can take your favorite music on their backs is something that is priceless. Regarding sound quality I can not say because I'm the right person for this, but I bet the gourmets only dare to criticize the quality of music from an MP3 player or a computer that is attached to good speakers and play back sound quality. Two decades ago, music was passed from hand to hand on cassette tapes, usually very questionable quality, and nobody complained much.
Technological progress is not an error, if not its misuse. The latter can lead to real Errare humanum est nonsense because after all, but from there to tick the electronics and the progress it has made possible as a cancer ... "
For my part I have in my living room multipurpose computer (makes of TV, Internet Cafe, in stereo and entertainment center videojueguil) and by a simple Creative Audigy coupled with decent speakers that sound coming out of there fear. To me at least it seems to me, that's what counts ;-).