i completely get preferring analog media, so if it’s about the sound characteristics (that ‘warmth’), having physical media, etc fair enough. but if the goal of an audiophile is to get the highest quality reproduction of a recording wouldn’t CDs or FLACs be your best bet?
maybe this only really applies for newer music, perhaps digital releases for music recorded analogue are just digitized vinyl or reel to reel recordings but for music produced in DAWs the highest quality version available for that release would surely be either a CD or a digital FLAC release
Vinyl is really the only analog source. To understand why you have to understand that vinyls bitrate is infinite because it’s analog. The DAC rate would be 1million bits.
It’s the difference between an amazing 20 mp photo and being there.
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I think almost anyone who spends effort to put vinyl on equivalent digital footing would approach this quesiton like this:
If you understand digital audio, these are actually 100% valid arguments that put vinyl on equal footing with digital, and suggest that any 16-bit hi-res file is already likely to be technically superior. There remains the question of whether it matters that you get ultrasonic content to play back, because you can’t hear it, our amplifiers may have trouble amplifying it, and our speakers are not likely to play those frequencies back well in any case due to being inaudible to humans.
Thank you for a very thorough thought on the atomic state of the vinyl, you’re right on that.