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Originally Posted by jamesscherer
actually vinyl is the best quality sound. the studio master is EXACTLY copied on to the LP with the only limitation being the size of the molecules the record is made of. Any digital copy is a series of samples from the original recording. When people talk about the bitrate of an audio file that talks about how many samples per second are taken. With an LP its like having a bitrate of infinity. That said though, if you don't have stellar equiptment and put work into making sure your records stay clean then the sound quality will degrade to worse than CDs. Too many people think of LPs as being all hiss and pops... it is actually the superior medium for sound.
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If the album was recorded onto 24/96 digital files, then that would be the best quality, not the vinyl transfer. Also the master tape of an analog recording would likely sound better than the vinyl transfer because of the inherent instability of the vinyl format.