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Originally Posted by jbjb
That's just the point at which the signal disappears into the quantisation noise floor (the bit-step quantum is significant compared with the signal amplitude). Vinyl would have given up long before that (the typical DR of a vinyl record is around 70dB - a factor of at least a hundred worse in terms of linear power dynamic range) so it's hard to see how that can be classified as a disadvantage of digital. It's not perfect, but it's much better than the analogue alternatives.
Logarithmically compressed PCM, of course, has it's own issues which are much worse (IMHO) for music reproduction.
Katsunami has it right - CD is technically massively superior to vinyl, but those advantages aren't always apparent due to a tendency for them to be royally messed with excessive DR compression etc.
/JB
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I agree that CD is superior to vinyl...provided the CD is well mastered. However, bad mastering is one of the main problems with CD. CDs should be mastered in a way that make best use of the format, much like vinyl has to be mastered in a way that works best for vinyl.