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>>In any case, why is it hard to believe? Isn't filtering one of
>>the cornerstones of sound processing? Was Fourier wrong??
>
>I don't know if he was wrong or right but I am pretty sure that his 
>mathematics describe something that is difficult to manifest 
>perfectly in an audio circuit in the real world and it is my opinion 
>that plays a significant factor in the character that we all hear in 
>digital audio that makes it a little less than the "perfect" 
>recording medium we all dreamed it would be way back when it was new.


Just a side note - but Fourier was not a mathematician. I think he was a 
physcist. He played fast and loose with the symbols to derive his 
results. The mathematicians were shocked by the lack of rigor. He was 
making all sorts of assumptions that were not on solid ground. However, 
over many decades there were able rigorously proove and further derive 
his ideas.