though it still sounds best when *not* digitized...

The more things change...

"LIVE music is BEST!" - Bumper sticker published in the mid-sixties by Humes & Burg, manufacturers of brass instrument mutes (that thing a trumpet or trombone player {you know what a trombone is, right?} sticks in the bell of his horn; the white ones with a red highlight) and the black hard-shell drum cases used by professionals at the time throughout the free world.

here here ^ ^