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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Let's call it what it is though - it's more distorted, and that's where we perceive the warmth (fuzziness, for lack of a better term), the richness (harmonics) and depth from. Vinyl does not reproduce the waveform as accurately, but the distortion it imparts to the waveform is appealing to the human ear, much the same as a guitar amp on the cusp of breaking up (or beyond, depending on taste!) is.
I'm not calling vinyl inferior, but it is more distorted (and that's a good thing to many, many people)
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Not sure I'd agree with that at all. Are you an engineer or something and know this or are you just speculating?
Quality of the needle is a huge determiner in how well it sounds.
CD quality is limited by a sampling rate from what I know of it. Vinyl is not. This is why the difference from what I know of it. I believe it reproduces the waveform MORE accurately.
I don't find vinyl on a good system to be distorted at all. Maybe really old vinyl that has been heated at some point in the sun or w/e.