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Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by DiNovi on Friday June 30, 2017 @03:36PM (#14673151)
uncompressed digital definitely does; but since most services dont offer that, its not what most people compare against
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by ovao on Friday June 30, 2017 @03:49PM (#14673228)
You'll actually have a very difficult time finding a modern lossy encoder at sane settings that will produce anything worse than what's achievable with a vinyl record. Because modern oversampling D/A converters are also very good, very abundant and very inexpensive, you'll have a similarly difficult time finding a digital playback system that's more poorly-equipped at the task than a purely-analog playback system.

From a purely technical perspective I'll pick a typical lossy file over vinyl every single time.