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    It’s not. The benefits are all hypothetical. In practical demonstrations, records have dramatically less dynamic range and more distortion. It’s not even a contest.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      CDs have a digital sampling rate of 44.1 KHz. Vinyl is a continuous waveform as an analog medium, but if you were to digitize it, the equivalent sampling rate would be at 96 KHz or higher.

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        11 day ago

        Yeah, but CDs don’t have static, aren’t affected by dust and there’s no hiss. In ideal conditions, vinyl is best, but I don’t live in a vacuum chamber.

        Back in the day my parents had a high quality turntable and sound system from a very well respected manufacturer, and we had strict rules on how you look after vinyl. The first generation CD player blew it away for sound fidelity.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          11 day ago

          All you have to do is clean the record before playing it each time. It takes 20 seconds, and I enjoy the ritual.

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        102 days ago

        Yes that’s the hypothesis.
        But in practice the distortion eliminates reliable reproduction at those frequencies, which humans can’t hear anyway.