[SamAdams76]

The recording ability on a MacBook Pro blows away any professional recording studio of the 1960s. Or 1970s for that matter. Of course you need to have some skills to properly use the software available to you.

[SamAdams76]

Should mention that if the results of your MacBook Pro recording is encoded as an mp3 - it probably won't sound nearly as good as a vinyl recording from the 1960s and 1970s.

Eventually, we will move away from the need to compress music into mp3s and the sound will improve once again.

Yes, all those buying mp3s today will eventually have to buy their music all over again once the new uncompressed formats start to emerge. We will need terrabyte-sized hard drives to hold it all but those are coming as well.

Over the course of my lifetime, there are albums I've bought four times. Vinyl; cassette; compact disk, and finally mp3.