In summary, if you want great audio quality use:
- Vinyl records
- CDs
- Well-recorded cassettes
- Super Audio CDs
- Audio DVD and Blu-ray
- Lossless digital files
- Lossless streaming
- DAT
- DCC
- Minidisc (some variants)
- high bitrate compressed audio files
- MIDI files on floppy disk
- hire a live band