• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    1 day ago

    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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      112 hours 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.

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        110 hours 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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      101 day ago

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