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A major interest of mine, but unfortunately one that I haven't committed real money to, is analog sound. If I had a billion dollars (not 10 or 100 billion, just one), and I don't think 100 million would be enough to fund it, I'd like to sponsor a project to build a state-of-the-art cost-no-object mechanical-acoustical recording system, just to see how much fidelity could be captured without electronics but with the most advanced materials in 2018.
That aside, I think of analogies between photography and audio when it comes to the intrusion of digital processing. At the risk that my analogy might be too simple, I see many photographers shooting film today, only to scan their films digitally and print them digitally. Printing the films with analog 'enlargers' produces a different result, and I'd imagine what this article describes is somehow analogous to my photo example - bypassing digital processing altogether.