If he hasn't heard a good-sounding record made in the last couple of decades, he's not looking too hard. And I'm sorry, but vinyl LPs, in practice, just plain do not sound as good as CDs. Maybe in absolutely perfect conditions they would, but that's a purely theoretical thing, whereas it's pretty easy to get a very good sound from a CD. I have lots of CDs that were recent releases that I think sound great. Some of them, like Cardiacs' Garage vols. 1 and 2 discs, were even recorded digitally (the latter on Tascam DA88s of all things). I challenge Dylan or anybody to listen to the Frank Zappa 1988 tour recordings (done digitally on a 48-track system) and tell me there's anything wrong with the way they sound.
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