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Old 07-23-2016, 01:24 PM   #87 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Shadou Dan View Post
As far as sound quality goes, a newly opened vinyl played for the first time is slightly better than a CD, but of course it depends on how the album is mastered, and if it's pre 2008. According to Neil Young, new vinyl is a rip off since they are mostly recorded digitally to begin with.
He's probably saying that it cannot be better than his high quality Pono format.

I've seen a few records from the early 1980s that boast about being digitally recorded. Nowadays they're more likely to boast if they were analogue recorded.
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