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Is vinyl still a "perfect" source?

I'm after your thoughts on this one...
Recently I've started thinking about getting back into vinyl as a source, but nowdays an LP is no longer a true representation of the original analog studio sound as it used to be, since 99% of recordings these days are done digitally in the first place. That of course means the music has to go through a DA converter before becoming a record, which I assume means some of the original analog sound is gone.
Have any of you noticed a loss of recording quality in vinyl over the past few years because of this?
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r_f_sayles
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This world's an imperfect place. There are screws falling out all over the place. Yet with a good rig, vinyl is sonically as "perfect" as your going to get. Unless of course you're inviting your favorite musicians over for dinner and a little live event...

Happy Listening!
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r_f_sayles
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“Perfect” means a lot of different things to different people. Nothing is perfect, that said, Lps are relatively speaking, the most outstanding source of high fidelity reproduction in the modern world.

Trust me, the problem is in most folks TT rigs and not the vinyl, old, new, or reissue, the vinyl is still THE greatest overall consumer medium available. I find that vinyl continues to show with each improvement to our turntables that there is still more untapped music and nuance to be mined from those grooves.

Now whether or not someone will want to fund a good analog source or not and deal with the complexities of the medium is a whole different issue. No one suggested it was the cheapest or easiest.

There is still good vinyl, great vinyl, and yes, bad vinyl today as there always was BUT, again, most of the time it’s the turntable that is lacking, not the vinyl IMHO.

Happy Listening!
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