Y'all know what they have to do to the signal to get it on vinyl and still be playable? The compression. RIAA EQ curve. Even the fact that the inner grooves have to hold more info in a given length due to fixed rotational speed so you actually lose quality on the later tracks on a side? The signal on a vinyl album doesn't have any more "fidelity" to the original than digital.
Yeah, bad digital sounds like crap, and there were plenty of early CDs that sounded bad before they figured things out. Likewise, low-bitrate, lossy mp3s can suck. But I'm with Brent Hutto. Get a player with good DACs (and most are good enough these days) and do a real blind ABX test, and I think you'll find that with high bitrate digital, even lossy, you won't be able to tell the difference.
I take that back--with some music, you might... because the digital can have a *greater* dynamic range than you can put on vinyl.
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