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Originally Posted by Trollheart
This is exactly my point. It's not like it's re-recorded, remastered or improved for vinyl listening, at least so far as I know. What you get today on a vinyl album is likely to be either what you would have got in my day (70s/80s) on an album or what you can get today on CD. Other than aesthetics, or if you're a collector, it makes no sense at all to shell out all that extra money and get nothing that you wouldn't get, sonically or musically, with a CD.
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They shouldn't be exactly the same. Constraints to the vinyl format means you need to create a vinyl master of a song to go on vinyl. This may include cutting and centering bass, cutting very high frequencies (though many do this anyways) and perhaps mastering less loud.
A digital master, which is free of those constraints, will usually be mastered differently (and in ways I generally prefer).
In other words, don't bother "ripping" your vinyls to make lossless flacs or mp3s. Rather search for a digital master.