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Vinyls have one other weakness though, wear and tear. The more you play it the worse the sound quality gets.

• Cthulhu_ 4y ago
  There are players that use lasers instead of a physical needle I believe, but then you probably end up with CD quality since they basically sample the physical structure of the album. But personally, I'll stick to digital for listening to music; vinyl is for collecting. I've got a handful of vinyl albums but not even a player, lol.
  • brokenmachine 4y ago
    >you probably end up with CD quality There is absolutely zero chance of getting CD quality off a physical record, even using a laser. People don't seem to understand how good CD quality actually is. 96dB dynamic range is not to be sniffed at.
  • worrycue 4y ago
    > then you probably end up with CD quality since they basically sample the physical structure of the album. Not quite. Vinyl if I'm right physically represents the audio wave forms - and there might be limits to how accurately it can do so due to the limitations of the material. CDs sample the audio waveform at 44.1Khz (44,100 samples per second) and quantized the input to 16 bits (2^16 different levels) then using the magic of math it reproduces almost the exact same waveform it sampled during playback - with any errors (from quantization if I'm right) pushed to frequencies we can't heard.