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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Utter rubbish. Who convinced you of that.
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A record technically has the actual sound waves recorded on it. Anything other format that we have has digital representations of the sound waves on it. Nowadays, when the recording process itself involves digital representations of the sound wave, pressing a record will obviously have only the digital representations that were recorded onto a hard drive. So, new records would have whatever quality they recorded at, provided that they kept that quality throughout the entire process. If they kept 24 bit quality throughout the process, the record could have 24 bit quality. CDs are 16 bit 44.1 kHz - meaning that 44100 times per second, there is a 16 bit (1s and 0s) code that represents the waveform at that moment.
DVD-Audio (which never caught on) is up to 24 bit, up to 96 khz for 5.1 sound, or up to 192 khz for stereo sound.
Any recording studio has been able to record at least DVD Audio quality for years.