you are the only one mentionning "best" and "closedt to ideal".
That's not what everybody's looking for otherwise people would stop listening to music in cars, public transports, even eance clubs or wherever there is the tiniest noise pollution.
Quality and being closest to original rank very low in people's media, ___location and equipment decision when it comes to listening to music. Heck we even pay a whole lot more to listen to imperfect music played live in a concert than their studio production counterpart.
And when making music digitally, most daws and sequencers come with a "swing" function to add a bit of imperfection otherwise music feel a bit bland.
I think that fidelity is the only important measure in media because it is what lets the author give the purist possible reproduction of their work to the consumer. All media has a level of degredation between thoughts, words, and interpretations, but digital is the one that has the highest fidelity.
Further, if the author intends, they can take their digital and make a vinyl; or record to vinyl, distribute as digital. (caveat: potentially having a double-lossy situation) Once you have a lossless digital you can publish it over two cans and string if you want. So it is quite literally a superset of analog media.
That's not what everybody's looking for otherwise people would stop listening to music in cars, public transports, even eance clubs or wherever there is the tiniest noise pollution.
Quality and being closest to original rank very low in people's media, ___location and equipment decision when it comes to listening to music. Heck we even pay a whole lot more to listen to imperfect music played live in a concert than their studio production counterpart.
And when making music digitally, most daws and sequencers come with a "swing" function to add a bit of imperfection otherwise music feel a bit bland.