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It really does come down to the skill, taste, and constraints of the people mixing and mastering — far more than the medium or the tools, I think.
One of the best audio engineers I’ve ever known (http://www.mikeolsonmusic.com) has always been curiously uninterested in the latest shiny tech for exactly this reason, and I have to say, the results he gets suggest he’s correct.