To comment on the noise floor of a vinyl LP vs CD, there no way an LP can hold a candle to CD; CD has a lower noise floor; end of discussion! That said, I know of few recordings (especially popular), which come anywhere near to using the low noise floor CD offers. Many popular recordings do not even use the noise floor offered by LP when played back under ideal conditions, so the question of noise floor becomes academic. So far as AVERAGE, not ideal, conditions, the noise floor of CD definitely wins; the average CD player is much quieter than the average turntable / preamp / unwashed LP / turntable positioning to avoid magnetic hum fields. It takes a fair amount of effort to get GOOD LP playback; it takes less effort to get GOOD CD playback. Of course, it can take a lot of effort to optimize playback of either format. I always felt that the most impressive LP noise floor was the dbx-encoded LPs. Those blew me away at back in the day. No inter-track noise on dbx LPs; the track would fade to complete silence.
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