Aquinus
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Why sampling rates beyond 44.1 kHz is nonsense: http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
If we assume the same master is used a CD provides much higher fidelity than vinyl. The tonality imperfections of vinyl can easily be added via an EQ and a filter if you like the popping sound. FLAC played back from any half decent PC can be somewhat better than even a high-end CD player due to lower jitter.
When people mention dynamic range as an issue please be aware you get 96 dB with normal 16 bit material. High dynamic range in a recording is 30, the only reason I can see for having more is to reduce issues with ill constructed software volume controllers.
I think his video was better at getting that point across without getting too deep into it: http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml