There are already two high-rez music storage and playback systems in our homes - reel-to-reel tapes and analogue vinyl LPs; all digital is inherently low-rez and destroys the music. Why anyone would deliberately choose a format that destroys music to serve the music is a mystery, bordering on insanity. Convenience hardly justifies someone who supposedly loves music in killing the music by sampling bits and pieces of it; digital was adopted by the ignorant who could only hear that the faults in LPs - “Listen, Ma, no pops or ticks!” - were absent, and whose ears were not attuned (yet - remember “perfect sound forever,” and what a nightmare that was?) to the horrible distortions introduced by digital (similar to the ignorant who rushed to embrace transistors over tubes - it seems to take some people years to realize that the new is not necessarily better). Makes me furious that generations of music are being torn to bits.
You forgot the intervening step between LPs and CDs, cartridges and cassette tapes. . . with the slower playback of both intended to get enough tape into the carts and cassettes for an album. The HISS of the magnetic tape transports. . . which lead to DOLBY NOISE REDUCTION: drop out the frequencies where the hiss existed (who needs those anyway?), convert the rest onto higher frequencies and drop the dB of those frequencies (nobody will notice you know!), and call the sound "New!” and "Improved!" and "Dolby!" and market the heck out of it for a generation. No wonder people were WOWED by the quality of the CDs when they came out! Most of them had not heard a good LP played on a good system for 20 years. They were used to Sony Walkman quality cassette music. . . Low hiss but OK was "good enough" for background music.