[TrueKnightGalahad]

Surviving all of these soon-to-be-extinct dinosaurs will be vinyl LPs, which still sound better than CDs, MP3s, SACDs, DVD-As, FLACs, APEs, ad nauseum.

[smokingfrog]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I love my vinyl records! I get them cheap at the Salvation Army, some have never been played are in pristine shape!

I am listening to the great old music I missed back in the 50s. Sammy Kay rocks! among others!

[dfwgator]

Surviving all of these soon-to-be-extinct dinosaurs will be vinyl LPs, which still sound better than CDs, MP3s, SACDs, DVD-As, FLACs, APEs, ad nauseum.

Well provided they don't have any scratches on them. One thing I noticed about vinyl back in the day, was that when I played some records where the length of a side was over 25 minutes, the sound deteriorated near the end of the side...I learned that was because to fit the grooves they actually made the width of the groove toward the end smaller so as to fit more music on the side.

[varyouga]

The digital consumer formats we've seen up until now do have perceivable digital loss but we do have the capability to record at much higher resolutions. Resolutions that go far beyond what is perceivable by any human ear.

But you needed more than just near-perfect recording capability. Electronics and processing power have become so cheap that affordable consumer players will be able to process the recording back into a crystal clear analog signal that will then go to the speakers. Remember that the CD was first released when plain handheld calculators were only for the very rich.

I think the days of analog storage via LPs are numbered. LPs are too easy to damage/degrade and difficult to store and transmit. Vinyl resolution will also always be limited by the tolerance of the equipment that mass produces the LPs.