All equipment are compromising the reproduced sound.
The difference from media to media, from source to source, from technology in use to ditto, from digital to analogue is with what characters and in what amount this compromise influence.

Then some people dislike this or that character of compromise and some people tend to value sound quality from what this persons ears tend to like instead of valuing the reproduced sound as being as close as possible to the original, to the analog reference.

A lot of hifi fora members (not only AOS) tend to judge sound quality unambiguous from the dynamic parameter, forgetting that dynamics is one of many known parameters to judge what we hear and certainly the known, defined and unit measurable parameters are just a fragment of the wholeness in which a lot of undefined parameters still remains the be acknowledged.

High Fidelity, for us music enjoyers, must be a term explaining that reproduced music can create an illusion taking the listener to where the music was performed or fooling the listener to imagine the musicians playing the gig in the listening room.

If it is not possible, within that imagination or illusion to pinpoint each musicians physical position on "the stage" then imagination/illusion is somehow ruined.

A lot of parameters are defining this important part of the illusion.
Dynamics is not the most importan one for this.

On the bottom line, I believe that the understanding of this will only have a chance when the religion of data sheets, measurements and specifications are left behind.

This is more about holism.

"dolph"