| Re: Orchestral Sound
To help expand on Rowuk's explination....
analog means the original sound was modulated onto a physical medium, i.e. an LP, there a very few easy means of editing the sound before the transfer, so you end up with a very real copied version of what you just heard, all mistakes and personalities included... think book report on paper with a coffee stain, and all you have is a photocopier.....
digital, however, you store all the physical sound as bits in a computer of some sort... this gives you infinite possibilities for changing or "improving" the sound... now your report is on your hard drive... who cares about coffee... you can edit and print mulitple "changes" of the same document....
And to answer your CD question... it depends on the CD. Most CD's have been digitally remastered... but you can get some analog recordings. I have a set of Louis Armstrong CD's that are untouched.... kind of weird to hear the "hiss" and "sizzle" of an LP coming out of a CD player!!
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