Vinyl and SACD rule when it comes to...

Don't hold your breath waiting for the big companies to improve quality. Years ago a large Japanese pressing company that was doing 30 million CDs a year sent a British mag 2 CDs. One was a standard pressing and the other was done by an alternate process that they could do at a slightly higher cost. The sound was so different they could not believe that the same data was on both CDs and had to download them both to computers to convince themselves that it was. Of course, the more expensive one was much better but they had never convinced any of the record companies to use it. I have been in audio 45 years and this is one thing that is exactly the same as when I started. I still prefer LPs but some CDs are quite good and , I am sure , could be better if anyone in the industry cared.