That's true. Remember when CD's first came out, the sound quality improvement dominated the marketing. That's because people were comparing to LPs and cassettes. This forced an awareness on the technological details into the consumer's mind, which the marketers of CD players and "premium sound" CDs were happy to capitalize. At one point, you even had sampling rates and such displayed as part of the important details in newspaper ads. Remember that?! But now that digital is a foregone conclusion, and convenience has become the dominant product attribute for most purchasers, the sound quality minimum has *room* to seek a new level --
