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No one was more anal than I was about record disk care. As goes for my Camaro. Chit happens - especially after 40 years of use. Agreed on the benefits of each. I took a 6-week audio course in a real San Diego studio right prior to CD debut. Studio quality 2" tape, as well as other sizes, was incredibly good. The bigger the tape, the more signal you could put on it. But even that got 'stepped on' of sorts in the mastering and pressing process.
Car and home audio tape machines - unless you spent big bucks like the old Nakamichi or something were prone to head alignment issues which always killed the freq spectrum. You'll never convince me that vinyl could be better than digital -IF- they wanted to take the time to use the data capacity available and produce a true high fidelity recording - like Neil Young tried so hard to get done. And some did.
There are many people who will pay six figures for a 1959 Les Paul guitar. Ace Frehley's Kiss guitar is for sale right now for $1M. I'm sure it's superior to anything. : / Go get it! There's a great blind test where "experts" listened to period Stradivarius violins vs brand new modern copies. Almost to a man they picked the WRONG one. They picked the new one.
Audio is in the ear of the beholder.
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