MP3s: The Fast Food Of Music?

Is the age of the MP3 ruining our appreciation of good-quality recorded sound? Consider: the average MP3 file contains only 10% of the sound actually recorded on the original CD it came from. That CD, in turn, contains less than half of what engineers captured on-site when the recording was made. “Compressed MP3s represent a minuscule fraction of the actual recording. For purists, it’s the dark ages of recorded sound.”