all the extra resolution vinyl has is where you need it for stereo surround detail, there's actual physical emphasis on the highs, the phase info at the top is very much more there on a record. all the advantage it has in resolution goes to the place you want it for matrixing new channels. bass swings the mids and highs all over the place on a CD just because of how bitstreams are quantized, the bass has a pull, it takes cycles away from the highs, on vinyl the bass is bound and gagged in the corner. but that's not to say a CD can't have better multichannel formats burned onto it or a better mix in general but it's a big loss to not have ANY stereo bass below 150? uh... that's a lot to ask. yay my perfect bass heavy album sounds like a TV show! whole lot of really good low end just get tossed on a record and i don't deny that. must be a lot to ask to have a better processing for the different formats. should be able to virtualize every format ever over modern systems. like a retrotink for movies & music. stereo is a hundred years old pretty soon... i'll have been here for about half of it. i could repair all your midi devices. i think i know what a tortilla look like. am maybe more familiar with measures and bars..
you sample the raw unfiltered Phono signal and all of a sudden you have so much more to work with than the CDs give you.
if you buy old records for under $5 a pop . you don't feel so bad about a $15 stylus until you start buying new records. i started collecting them with a TTUSB. old records are still just as much fun to play and you don't have to cry about them not being as perfect as the day you bought them anymore.
really prefer the newer SACD cases with the rounded corners and the button... those i think are my favorite of all the new sleeves. that and the mini LP formats that are packed just like a CD sized gatefold, the 45 sized SACD are nice, but kinda big, the disc they put the disc on is a good idea tho.. one of those in a paper jacket more square than the digipacks. miniLP with the 45SACDtray sized to miniLP. in an inner sleeve. would be better than CD plastic case is blegh, i hate those things. all they do is break. junk. i like the paper jackets, anything that fits in with the majority of the music from the last couple centuries i mean CDs are still just a blip and they already slowing down and vinyl is picking back up. really comes down to there just not being a better analog. tape and vinyl and CDs are like... we've been sorting out the strengths and weaknesses this whole time tyvm