[Walt.]

Originally Posted by iluvmopars

By the way, vinyl is making a comeback in the music industry so I've heard.

I had a load of near-mint LPs and 45s for sale at the Collectors Show at Savannah back in January. No junk. Decent prices.

I was told by at least 6 people that "vinyl is making a comeback."
Unfortunately none of them had a record player and I sold one LP all day. It was to a lady who asked "are these records?" She purchased a Bob Newhart LP "The Buttondown Mind Strikes Back." I don't think she know who Bob Newhart was either.

[Uberschaf]

Digital codex.All digital players have a codex some sound better than others. Flac is a compression ratio that is not as compressed as mp3.Say you recorded a LP from a USB turn table more than likely it would be a WAV.file because it is a analog. Recording quality would resemble the analog input.The size of the file would be around 255 mg.So I can put only 700 megs on a CD so what do I do? Digitize it and compress it. Mp3 is the most compression they can use so that's is what they used so they could stick a whole album on a CD. FLAC is the new standard for music quality.This is a lower compression ratio and can sound like the audio from a LP with all the pops and skips.IMHO get a iPod classic 6th gen they had a DAC(digital audio codex) that could not be beat.Apple either pilfered it and was caught or sold it.(More than likely the former)After no iPod had it.What I am trying to get to here is that there are different codex's out there.More than likely your cd player does not have one.