This certainly doesn't need to be the usual, unfortunate, LP vs. CD dragout. Most of us can agree that both sources can deliver a high degree of enjoyment.
Just to address a couple of the technical points raised above -
- it is in fact possible to detect signals under the noise floor of an analog source; this has to do with the signal being decorrelated from the noise. Note that with dither (see below), it is equally possible to do this with digital.
Dither is not a pallative, but rather an integral part of the digital recording process.
There are factors in vinyl reproduction which do limit the noise floor, surface roughness of the LP for one. This is why you'll never find a setup delivering greater than, say, in the mid-70s dB signal-to-noise.
Oh, and Sayas - please stop with the "people who prefer digital are lazy/can't hear/don't give a damn/cheap/etc." refrain. It just isn't universally true, and insulting to imply that it is.
Just to address a couple of the technical points raised above -
Oh, and Sayas - please stop with the "people who prefer digital are lazy/can't hear/don't give a damn/cheap/etc." refrain. It just isn't universally true, and insulting to imply that it is.