I remember when CDs first came out and Neil Young was very critical of their sound, and I believe he was entirely justified in his criticism. When they first ca

I remember when CDs first came out and Neil Young was very critical of their sound, and I believe he was entirely justified in his criticism. When they first came out CDs were Record Company's poor stepchildren, and they were treated very poorly. I believe the engineers mastering CDs were given tapes that were several generations away from the original master tapes, and I suspect they may have even been already equalized for vinyl. No wonder audiophiles preferred the sound of vinyl over the sound of early CDs. Nowadays CDs are made from digital recordings to digital masters to digital discs (DDD). I love Neil Young's music, but his grasp of the details of digital audio recording and reproduction is not particularly strong.