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Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp
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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i have a friend who got to listen to the same recording on the best equipment money can by on both vinyl and cd. to give you an idea of this "audiophile grade" system, the cable connecting from the stylus to the turntable (made of the purest extracted silver) cost $3,000. they listened to both; and a/b'd them at the same time. the vinyl version easily trumped the cd version......that said, it almost seems silly to bother with decrying the limitations of cds, when we have people using the lowest possible bit rate for mp3s so they can fit as many crappy songs onto their disposable ipods, listening to those tiny white earbuds (trying to drown out the el, as i try to ignore the eminem song they are deafining themselves to). it almost makes the conversation irrelivent - to me anyways.