As always Alan, another well thought out and informative message. Much appreciated.

So the long held "axiom" in the computing world - Garbage In, Garbage Out - is meaningful as well in the audio realm.

I recall reading that the costs of setting up a hi-rez audio studio were significant, and contributed to the retail prices of the products, but clearly there's an additional labour cost element as well. A job worth doing is worth doing well, as it were.