Analog or Digital? (1993)

Vinyl sounds so much better than CD.

You do need a good setup using a good table and moving coil cartridge. But even a modest setup will blow away a multi thousand dollar CD player.

I'm happy with my ipod nano and 320kbps files.
still have a Bose big ass speakers and some serious amplifiers to move those.

@vitto Well the first mistake was going Bose.

No what you said is wrong. I never heard of nyquist who is he some freakin writer for a comic book? The error is relevant in the sampling rate wave because 20 HJZ in achieved in the tapes at the record store for years now. I have a Emerson stereo its a good one from the garage sale that plays 8 tracks and records that is better then 44,100 to be safe cause I hooked up a meter to it and it says its 48,200 rams Mine has it says stereo and it plays very well thanks you

It doesn't have to guess if the sampling rate is twice the highest frequency of the sound wave.  (c) Nyquist
And since we don't hear beyond ~20 Khz 40 Khz sampling rate is enough for the exact representation of the sound. Vinyl may sound better to someone subjectively but it doesn't mean it represents music better.

If 44.1/16 bit is an exact representation of sound, why has the sampling rate continued to be improved upon? Why record at 96khz and beyond? Is digital getting "perfecter" than it was? Will it keep getting more "perfecter?"

NOTHING is an "exact representation of sound" - not even analog. And everyone can hear above 20Khz subliminally. Many tests show that we prefer sounds with those freq present. There are odorless gases that still effect us, even though we can't "smell" them.

For the marketing purposes partly. Higher sampling rates / bit rates are also more preferable for pro usage, because DAWs do less "damage" in that case.
But I can't see 96k / 24 bits becoming the standart for music media. Why? Probably because that would be redundant.

"NOTHING is an "exact representation of sound" - not even analog."

ESPECIALLY analog.

YOUR the reason there are so many audio myth on the net. the dac does not "guess" it uses a filter to figure out EXACTLY THE gap and recreates the analog signal without error look it up dont take my word for it. oh and your upsample of 96khz and even 192khz is pure marketing bull shit!!!!!

And YOU'RE the reason that we need to have spellcheck, grammar check, and all the other life-clogging "assistances" we have in software nowadays. Learn to spell and learn to write before trying to make a frickin' point.

And regarding the rest of your bullshit:

1. Name me ONE profressional studio that still records at 16bit/44.1. Just ONE.

2. If you believe the hype about "figuring it out without error," then there's nothing more we can say. You're an idiot, plain and simple.

I quess vinyl fanatics can hear far beyound 20 KHz : )