Also, I did once listen to an NPR segment about vinyl, and how encoding on vinyl is inherently superior because digital reproduction of an analog wavelength by its very nature removes information.
That argument is BS, by the way.
Which argument? That analog-to-analog is better; or that FLAC would make for a reasonable lossless copy?
The former.
I didn’t claim to be an expert. I just said I heard a segment on the subject, and they claimed that was why vinyl is actually better than CD. That article you linked is a bit tl;dr for me in refuting it.
you probably misunderstood the segment because it was a digital broadcast.
Hey, I still have music encoded as MP3 @ ~192k VBR from back in the day when file size mattered. And I’ve RECENTLY ripped my entire Audible library to MP3 VBR -q8 (because I have a lot of them and Plex doesn’t support m4b yet. Plus I hate Apple so nevermind iTunes support.) I’m no audiophile.
For the record, I rip to digital for everything when at all possible. Even moreso than I used to since I started a Plex Media Server. Media servers are definitely not hipster.