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The problem is the math

Let's assume a sample rate of 40 K, just to make the numbers work and still get ~20 khz response. Given 16 bits per sample, forget error checking and whatever else comes on a RBCD formatted disk, our stylus would need to vibrate 40,000 * 16 times per second. That's 640,000 cycles per second.

No vinyl fan ever made such a claim for vinyl.

Lets go the other way. Assume we can track an LP at 40,000 cycles per second, just be an optimistic vinylphile for the moment. Divide that by 16 and we get 2500 words per ~1/2 revolution.

That gives vinyl a frequency of max. 1.25 khz when used a digital storage medium - and that's a way optimistic estimate.



Edits: 05/19/09 05/19/09
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