• Steve
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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.

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

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        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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          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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        CDs have a digital sampling rate of 44.1 KHz

        That’s because humans can’t hear frequencies above ~20 kHz. If humans could hear the difference, the sampling rate would be higher.