On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Nigel Redmon wrote:
We'd expect a 16-bit digital recording (CD) of music made up of 8-bit digital recordings (Fairlight CMI) to be faithful to the source, so the only way vinyl could win is to somehow filter the digital audio into sounding better, and I don't think that's the claim by vinyl lovers. A better test would be acoustic instruments, including orchestra and voice. We know what those sound like in the absence of any recording, so you're left with comparing reproductions, CD and vinyl.
The bit resolution shouldn't matter if it is all about tanh compression effects and/or phase/frequency alterations by the RIAA curve.
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