that's a very odd way to think about itPat Gleeson wrote:Vinyl sounds better than CD / digital precisely because it can't be brick walled to the same extent - the damn stylus would skip off the platter. It's better by default. ...
The ideal delivery medium is transparent and has perfect fidelity to the finished mix from the multitrack.
CD, with its 44.1kHz 16bit PCM audio, *can* come very close perfect fidelity if the mastering engineer isn't a total dick.
Vinyl can never come close to fidelity in a million years, and inevitably imparts a variety of audio distortions all of which are objectively measurable
Here are some good articles about it
http://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advic ... est-medium
http://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advic ... l-releases
http://www.soundonsound.com/music-business/hot-metal (this last one will make you weep when you learn the sorts of things that happen to reference lacquers!)