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appleburger17 t1_j206gvu wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Wiil CD's make a comeback like Vinyl? by trukises

What measures of "higher audio quality" are you choosing to make this determination? Because in some ways vinyl is absolutely higher quality (the fact that digital creates non-perfect approximations of an analog source and is then limited by a bit and sample rate, a lowly 16bit 44.1kHz for CD) and in other ways CD is higher (dynamic range potential). A lossless digital file played through a high quality DAC has the dynamic range advantage with digital coding that is a much closer representation of an analog source than a CD.

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j20ekjy wrote

Is a JPEG or a PNG ~less~ of a Static Visual Image than something like an old-school Polaroid Picture??? One is digital, the other is traditional / analogue. But both are "images."

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j20f41b wrote

Why did Captain Sisko even WANT the stupid old baseball, when he could have just told the Replicator to make him one just as easily as it was making Picard's Earl Gray Tea, or Janeway's coffee????

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appleburger17 t1_j20fauh wrote

Assuming you mean to say "less quality" rather than just "less of a static visual image" (since something is either a static image or is not so cannot be less or more without introducing a measure of quality), you haven't provided enough information to answer this question. Which signals to me you don't understand the technology well enough to hold this conversation in an intelligent way.

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j20g8xi wrote

Is a digital picture not a picture because it's digital????

If you have a fancy digital camera that's rated for a crazy amount of Mega Pixels, you would still prefer an analogue camera from the 70s or 80s????

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appleburger17 t1_j20i2sy wrote

You keep coming so close to the point without even realizing it only to set up some other random unrelated thought full of a whole new set of problems.

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j20k5pi wrote

Yeah. It's called ADHD.

HOLY SHIT, LOOK AT THAT SQUIRREL!!! I'M GUNNA CHASE IT UP THAT TREE!! YUH-HUH, YUH-HUH!!! YUP!!! IMA GUNNA GIT'EM!!!

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j20gnvl wrote

Do you prefer your movies to be on old-school 8mm Film?

Is DVD or Blue Ray just too mainstream and plebeian for you??

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appleburger17 t1_j21ckru wrote

I have a degree in audio engineering and have worked in recording studios and live sound reinforcement for decades. Sorry if “do your own Google research” doesn’t cut it for me.

It is a fact, which you can Google if you’d like, that digital audio (CD) is an approximation of an analog source. The quality of that approximation is most often determined and measured in bit rate and sample rate. The higher the bit and sample rate the higher quality and closer it gets to its analog source which has no such limitation. By that measure, vinyl can be higher quality. It is a more exact representation of the source.

It is also a fact, again goggleable, that CD’s dynamic range potential is higher than vinyl. In that measure, CDs can be higher quality.

Which is why I asked what measure you were using to make your case. Unfortunately, you can’t answer with anything but “google it”.

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[deleted] t1_j21h8p4 wrote

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appleburger17 t1_j21wwyj wrote

Never, in the history of recorded music, has it been commonplace to make original recordings on vinyl. Again, you have no clue what you’re talking about.

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