When is digital going to get the soul of music?

the soul is in the listener not the music.

the listener is the most important variable, more so than the music or the equipment.

The soul is in the artist's performance. Whether a stereo system can convey it or not, specifically, whether or not the digital format is capable of preserving the soul of the original performance is the question here. My feeling, from listening, is that it can.

And whether or not a specific individual is capable of grasping the "soul" of a particular artist's performance is yet another matter.

Sorry, wrong again. The soul starts in the composer. If the composer does not commit the right notes to the score, no amount of performing skill and passion, no amount of artsy recording engineering, no amount of fanciful analog or digital reproduction, no amount of angst, passion or hyperactive neurotransmitters in the listener are going to make an Iot of difference. . . In other words, the elusive 'soul' of music lives in the chain of artistic, technical and emotional causality.

mr g, what evidence do you have that there is soul in a composition ? it is an opinion based upon your experience of listening to music. it is not knowledge.
let's not get too presumptious.

let's not get too carried away with an opinion. it is based purely on experience which does not yeild knowledge.

it may be an "educated" opinion, an "expert" opinion, but as an opinion it is neither true nor false. tha truth or falsity of an opinion cannot be ascertained.

a soul may be a part of ahuman being, spiritually speaking, but music having a soul, i think not--but thats just an opinion.

No MrT, it is evidence based on my experience as a composer.