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Can digitizing vinyl match CD?

I'm digitizing some of my vinyl so that it is transportable. I'll keep the LPs, but I just don't want to buy duplicates of the LPs on CD. I have some LPs not released on vinyl. I'll be sampling at either 48 or 96 bps.

Is it possible for digitizing vinyl to match or exceed commercial Red Book CDs?

Is the commercial process of CD production by definition superior to anything I could achieve since the studio master recordings are fewer generations removed from the original than my LPs would be?

Are my CBS Masterworks Series Digitally Remastered LPs already compromised (compared to original analog releases) because they've departed from the analog production cycle?

Or is it only possible to exceed CD quality if price is no object?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Craig
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I have an upscale front end and seriously would like to look into high rate digital rips of my lps for my second system, etc

enjoy the emotion of vinyl and if I can get most of that back I would be very pleased

threads I've read are confusing
would you recommend a stand alone burner/player
or using a d/a and computer (hard drive or straight burn)

you can pm me if this has been reitereated infinitum

thanks
Tom
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do any of the high res sacd/dvda players (thinking oppo) play the 24/96 or other higher sampled formats?

can you have a hard drive tied to the system with high res needle drops?
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