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Originally Posted by Bluecow2
Bullshit.
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It's not bullshit, it's science.
The sound on a vinyl record is an exact replica of the original waveform from the master tape. It's the sound exactly as it was recorded with no loss of frequency whatsoever.
Digital sound, no matter how good, will always have some loss. Think of it like a loaf of bread. The analog sound on the vinyl is like a complete loaf of bread out of the oven, unsliced, completely together as it was baked.
Digital sound is taking that loaf of bread and cutting it into slices. No matter how thin you cut the slices, you are going to lose some crumbs out of the original loaf when you do it.
Digital sound has to be sampled at a specfic rate. The most common used is 44.1 KHz. That means that each second of the original analog sound wave is basically sliced into 44,100 pieces. That's a lot of pieces for one second, but it still is not an exact translation of the waveform.
There's some other posters here that know the science of it better than I do, but that's the basic jist.