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Good call, but what are the chances of the walls being punctured by debris?

Given how digital playback works, whereby the waveform is essentially drawn in "steps," the number of which is determined by the sampling rate, and the distance from the center line, as it were, by the bit depth (headroom), of course an analog playback solution sounds better to some - it is as if the same image is both photographed with an older digital camera and painted - the photograph will be imperfect, but will be perceived as more perfect than the painting to some. To others, it will seem cold, and artifacts from the digital photography process may show - the reds may not look as "red," for instance, due to the presence of only one CCD in the camera (much like 16 bit audio not having as much perceived dynamic range to some. The painting will seem more "human," and more "artistic," "warm," and a lot of other intangible, yet equally important adjectives. Much like this, CDs, at 44.1kHz and 16 bit, may be more "perfect" to some, but less "human" to others. That said, from my understanding 192kHz and 32 bit is what is required for a digital audio file to not exhibit any digital artifacts, even subtle ones.