What is the best possible audio quality that can be achieved, and in what format would that look like? Is it possible in digital form?

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What is the best possible audio quality that can be achieved, and in what format would that look like? Is it possible in digital form?

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This is a complicated question that is probably not answerable in the way you might want. I am assuming that you are talking not just about recording, but also reproducing audio. Every component in the chain will color the sound in some ways. The microphone, the recording medium and device, the amplifier, the speakers, the cables, and the room itself.

There isn’t one way to measure that performance, and in the end, it’s personal preference as to how closely the result matches the original sound.