Re:all recording is lossy (Score 1)

Your definition of "lossy" is a bit off. It's not a loss-over-time issue; rather, it is a compression/decompression issue. Encoding analog audio into a digitally compressed format will result in some loss when it is decompressed, i.e. played back in analog. There will be some loss there (high-end treble and low-end bass usually suffer the most), but it is "close enough" to justify the reduction in file size.