Interestingly, the transition from analog to digital sound recording doesn't follow the same pros and cons as experienced in photography. Digitally, sound recordings are more easily manipulated and stored, and have reached the point in which the human ear often cannot distinguish the difference in quality compared to analog recordings. The limitations in speaker power and more importantly the comfort zone of our own ears made this threshold much easier to reach for digital media than it has been on the visual side, as it seems that photographs can always get better in the quality department. Take into account the lack of dust or electromagnetic interference often found in analog playback and the switch to digital sounds pretty clear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction
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