Most audio reproduction chain components are now perceptually flawless

Evidence

Sound reproduction and processing of audio signals has developed over more than a century to a stage in engineering where many of the components in a reproduction or signal processing chain can be made practically perfect from a perceptual point of view, implying that imperfections in the reproduction cannot be noticed. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 463

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 463