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Originally Posted by theducks
Vinyl does not have the hard frequency cutoff that CD's do.
CD has a 44KHz sample rate (split between Stereo Channels)
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CD has 44.1KHz sampling of each channel independently - it's not split between channels.
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The overtones (on things like chimes) are lost early on CD.
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The only overtones that are lost due to CD's sampling are those that you can't hear anyway (unless you're very, very young, and even then probably not).
In comparison with CD, vinyl also has:
- worse dynamic range
- worse signal-to-noise ratio
- worse stereo separation
- more harmonic distortion
- more wow and flutter
Some people may prefer the "sound" of vinyl, but that's just because they enjoy the sound of the inaccuracies and distortion of vinyl. If the question is which one most accurately reproduces the original signal, CD wins comfortably - it's not even close.