Your discussion of the technologies is kind of lost on me. The music is not the same as the instruments on which it is played, or recorded.
This is smoky bar discussion (oh, no smoking in bars anymore), and I’m sure I’d enjoy this discussion with you and dfwgator.
I won’t even pretend that I’mn not seriously opinionated on this topic, and would argue passionately. My opinions are not fly by night, I studied jazz guitar/jazz perfornmance for better than a decade with a private teacher (as an adult while working full time in a non musical job). But I listen pretty good as well.
Of course, I put those studies to great use, now playing the telecaster and mandolin in a twangy rock n roll outfit.
Jazz is the “baseball” of music....it’s the one form of music people can talk about and argue over for hours on end.