A new analog medium

I think analog vs digital is missing the point. We should use whatever medium is best able to capture and reproduce music. DVD-A looked to be a good standard on paper to me, but unfortunately the buying public were not interested.

Anyone who tells you that because digital involves sampling and quantization it automatically loses information is totally ignorant of the underlying science and should be ignored.

we are seeing a lot of this ignore-the-anti-digital in the analog forums these days.

I would say listen for yourself and don't ignore what you hear.

There is dogma but if analog is better you will actually hear that. I hear it.

BTW, quantization does lose 'data'. It is synthesizes.

I see your point but I didn't want to turn this into another digital vs. analog discussion.
I do happen to think that a properly implemented optical analog format would be superior to any optical digital format, however.