Remember in the early-90s when CDs were gaining popularity in the mainsteam and you could always find one set of three letters on the back of the CD?: AAD/ADD/ or DDD? These indicated “how digital” the CD was… AAD meant “Analog recording, analog mixing, digital transfer” while ADD was “Analog recording, digital mixing, and digital transfer” and DDD meant the entire recording process was digital. But then, by the mid-90s, those designations had all but disappeared. From my understanding, the letters were dropped because they really didn’t provide all that much useful information: people automatically assumed that “all digital” meant better, but that simply isn’t the case.
