Can even a Novice hear differences in Sound Qualit

If you are a hiker, you have scaled false peaks that reveal other false peaks before the summit. The big questions of "What does the CD format really sound like?" or "What does vinyl really sound like?" are not answered at the false peaks. Climb thee higher oh pettyofficer, for I fear that such answers are not revealed at sea level.

Petty, you sound like the old guy down the street from my childhood home that wore a white T-shirt, plaid shorts, black socks, and sandals and yelled at us young hooligans..."get off my lawn"!!!
Stop taking things so seriously---life is too short.

What is your point, Dgarretson, of even trying to ride any false peaks or summit, with a 500 Lb. weight on your back? A 500 Lb. weight of-CD-SACD-DVD-Audio Formats dragging you down! Your solution is a $10,000.00 Bike to handle the extra load, we dare not even concider any other possible solution, gotta protect our ego and bragging rights of our $10,000.00 personal Moneypit at all costs, even at the expensive cost of Sound Quality! Am I reading this book correctly?
Cajunpepe, do you have a serious prejudice problem, trying to fit all people into your own broad brush perceptions, even those that you have never met or don't even know. All of those Old Guys (insert any minority) are all the same, even the ones that you haven't met! I do take your pigeon-hole-ing seriously, knowing that there must be some other serious character flaw that must explain it! I suppose that all Old Guys are supposed to wear a white T-shirt,plaid shorts, black socks, and sandals, and I still can't understand why this Man would treat you with such contempt! Perhaps someone needs to draw you a picture of your own image in a mirror, and have you take a serious look at it!
Life can be very short, for the fool who drops 10-20 thousands of dollars on a Stereo System, in a vain attempt for a slight improvement on a severely flawed and damaged Format! Lets add some more zero's on this amount, on our next System, in a vain attempt to make MP3 sound as good (sic) as CD/SACD/DVD-Audio. There is certainly some ego, and bragging rights, to be squeezed out of this endeavor, and if the rest of us gets screwed with the Sound Quality of MP3, too bad! MP3 is good enough, let them eat Dogs__t! Just because not everyone can afford Hundreds of thousands of dollars in Equipment, for a slight improvement in MP3, tough s__t! I suppose that some of us can afford a third Mortgage! This seems like dejavue all over again, like the day that CD was officially released, ever wonder why? How dare we even concider any improvement in any Format, and voiding the necessity of spending Tens of thousands on Equipment Hardware Upgrade Band-aids for a severely flawed Format! I must be out of my mind, to even concider the garbage in side of this equation, of course I have Money to burn compensating on the garbage out! Life is too short- to be burning Money this way- and that is a serious problem, Cajunpepe! With Audiophile friends like these, who needs greedy Recording Industry Enemies?

Petty,you have issues.
Pepe

The only issue I have, is understanding the principle of, Garbage in-Garbage out! It is a principle that is sooooo simple, even a Cave Man can understand it! Oh-My-God, I never even realized who I was talking to! How was I supposed to know that you guys still existed? No wonder you guys are so frustrated with your Car Insurance, and your Stereo's! Now I understand, it explains sooo much on sooo many levels! It is like trying to explain Quantum Physics to a Neanderthal, no-wait-I didn't mean to say it that way! I know you guys are sensitive, don't get mad! Just trying to use some Stone-age humor, no-wait-that didn't come out right either! Awww-I give up! The Hell with it! I suppose now we know why you never need a peticure, my knuckle dragging friend!
My only real issue, Pepe, is that as long as you are dragging yourself down(and whatever bodily appendage along with it), stop dragging me down with you! Have you got it, my soon to be extinct Neandophile friend, not to be extinct soon enough!
That also goes for any other Extreme Masochistic, Self- degratiating, So-called Intellectual Neandophile out there as well. Your days are numbered, you will soon be extinct, time for you to evolve! I suggest that you start trying to develop into a more complicated life form, one that actually recognizes. and appreciates improved Sound Quality with better Formats! Your knuckle dragging, is dragging the
evolution of the whole Human Race down to a slow crawl! If you don't want to move on, then get the Hell out of the way of the rest of us!