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> For one thing CDs store digital data, zeroes and ones, not analog like a vinyl. That's not a counterargument. That's literally what "digitized a vinyl record

• simias 8y ago
  Well that's what the rest of my comment was about, "digitizing a vinyl record" makes it sound like you take a vinyl, pass the analog audio through an ADC and output that directly onto an other disc and you get a CD. In practice it's a lot more complicated than that so I disagree with your original comment: >The design is nearly identical to what one would get if one simply literally (almost) digitized a vinyl record. The rotating disc format is simply due to technical constraints and not caused by vinyl mimicry (unless you also consider that hard disc drives and floppies are nearly identical to vinyls as well). The rest is completely different from a vinyl on almost every level, besides the fact that they both store stereo audio.