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Originally Posted by jbjb
CD has 44.1KHz sampling of each channel independently - it's not split between channels.
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Yes, I missed that. Also no compression.
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Originally Posted by jbjb
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).
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Those overtones, which probably no-one can hear, don't make it to the recording, no matter if direct cut disk, analogue tape (early 1950s to late 1980s), digital tape (since late 1970s) or HDD recording (last 20 years).
They may not even make it past the microphone.
You can perfectly duplicate the sound of any era of recording, media and amps. The weakest link is now the speaker. Most of those are far worst than 1930s to 1990s now.
I've owned two serious quality turntables (still have one with new belts) and I have one not bad JVC belt drive. I bought one of the current supermarket typical turntables. They claim to do 78 rpm, but don't have the larger different shape stylus for that. The cartridge is similar quality to a 1965 budget type. The arm is too short. The turntable is too small and light. The speakers are worse than cheap 1990s 3″ plastic cased PC or walkman extension speakers, far too small. I've restored budget 1950s autochanger transportable record players that are better.
As well as CDs I have 78s going back to 1920s, a 1935 radiogram, 45s from 1960s, a couple of 1960s LPs and a bunch of 1970s LPs.
Even the highly compressed minidisc was better than LPs (I transferred CDs to it) though 256 kbps mp3s are better than minidisk.
Few people now have decent speakers. I've 4 hifi systems with real speakers and the main TV sound uses a full size stage bass guitar speaker as subwoofer and 5 full size speakers. The bedroom HiFi uses 5 decent Bookshelf speakers.