What if the machine they were using had something on it, unbeknownst to them?
You would only need one error at some point in the chain by one provider to bring the whole method into question.
Hmmm, indeed!
You don't need to do the flash stuff to be brilliant.
A few weeks ago I went to a Hi-Fi show where one of the rooms was playing this and it sounded great; I looked around and Mike Lindup had wandered into the room and sat down behind me!
I agree about his tone; whilst he's acknowledged as having done great things for the bass as an instrument, the sounds coming out of the instruments don't do much for me.
The key word is "quality" digital there.
There's a band I quite like (https://whenriversmeet.co.uk/) and I have one of their CDs which is really good on the Hi-Fi, but their downloads are only mp3.