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Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by shuntress on Friday June 30, 2017 @01:57PM (#14672493)
It doesn't automatically sound better. But the main reduction in quality from most digital storage comes from sacrifices made in encoding/compression to achieve more efficient storage.

Since you simply cannot do this on analog storage, vinyl will not have these compromises and will usually sound better.

But compared to good lossless digital storage that makes the opposite sacrifice (ie: Take up more space to retain more quality) vinyl will almost always produce a less accurate reproduction due to the physical properties (degradation) of the record itself.

Though many people seem to find these analog losses appealing or 'warmer' and actually prefer it to a more accurate reproduction of the original master.

Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by __david__ on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:55PM (#14674609)
Of course vinyl has the same issues. How close are your groves? How rigid is your material? If you spin it faster you can het higher frequencies but then the needle has more chance to grind down those physical grooves each time you play it.

Uncompressed digital audio is going to sound equal to or (more likely) better, and it doesn’t have the degradation problem.

Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by shuntress on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @02:23PM (#14704931)
That is completely true, I hadn't really thought about that.