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Wait, I thought vinyl was dead? Next thing you know, CD will be dead and we'll go download-only. 
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I would not consider the occasional vinyl release aimed purely at fanatics/collectors as a sign of life.
Well, vinyl releases include much more than a handful of reissued soundtracks. All sorts of material comes out nowadays, new and catalog for a variety of music styles. Vinyl has never gone away in the twenty-five years or so since CD took over.
And don't be surprised if CDs are marketed the same way at some point in the distant future.
I've been anticipating such a future for CDs for years now, with my surprise actually coming at the fact it isn't here already. And even when it does come, the format - like vinyl - still won't be dead.
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Superior presentation? How? I guess it comes down to how you define "superior."
Also curious what difference 192/24 makes to LP sound.
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Superior presentation? How? I guess it comes down to how you define "superior.".
I was referring to the bigger, grander art. And the "event" of playing the things. Those are what the films I mentioned really bring out.
Ah, I see  I agree that the whole experience of playing an LP - and even taking the record out of the sleeve for the first time - is one that I miss, along with the artwork and larger scale liner notes.
I also understand why some people "prefer" the sound of LP (as there is no right and wrong when it comes to preference), however I do object when someone makes a blanket, authoritative statement that LPs sound superior to CD. Objectively it can be proved that they do not, *if* you define the superior format to the one that sounds most like the master recording. I've been involved in the pro and consumer audio industry for decades, and it is simply a fact that CD is capable of reproducing the sound of the master recording in a much more faithful manner than LP. In fact, in most cases the resulting CD will be audibly indistinguishable from the master - which has been confirmed in many blind listening tests. Most LPs, on the other hand, sound quite different from the master recording because of all of the pre-processing that must be done to overcome the limitations of the medium itself.
I realize that this is not the claim you are making, so I apologize if it seems that this is directed at you
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