> I just KNEW there'd be a skeptic in the crowd! Oh, I'm not a skeptic, but you are comparing apples to oranges completely sujectively. You are not even weighing them or measuring their volume, but even if you did, the key variable is taste, and that is pretty subjective. Your report of 10 per-cent better could just as easily have been 50 per-cent better because there is no objectivity, nothing you - or anyone else - can actually physically measure.
My sujective assessment from experience is that "comparable" analog and digital systems perform "about the same". I can objectively compare analog systems using SINAD, and I can objectively compare digital systems using BER. There is just no standard for objectively comparing analog and digital systems against each other. 73--John