That's all well and good, but the problem with this obsession with master tapes is that they don't last forever, and degrade over time, along with every time th

That's all well and good, but the problem with this obsession with master tapes is that they don't last forever, and degrade over time, along with every time they're taken out and handled and run through a player to create another "remaster" that has no dynamic range and lots of clipping distortion, since that's apparently what consumers want these days.