Hard-disk vs. digital tape.(Brief Article)

Recently I was quite intrigued by many discussions of the differences of opinion between "direct-to-disk" recording and "digital audio tape" (systems in general). Digital recording has come a very long way. Most music you hear today, has probably been "touched" by the digital realm in one way or another whether in the recording, mixing, post-production or final set-up and creation of a final CD product. They used to say digital just "takes the life out of the music recording." Now it seems one can't live without it and it is readily accepted.

Throughout the evolution of time and digital, has the human ear accepted that the digital realm could or can be warm sounding? It's …