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by maloney 3439 days ago
I don't think that is true, given that digital will always be samples of the original. I worked at a mastering studio that had a laser record player, best sound I have heard.
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> I don't think that is true, given that digital will always be samples of the original.

Nyquist–Shannon begs to differ.

-In all fairness (and this does not have any practical implication whatsoever for the case discussed here, but nit-picking is a favourite pastime of mine), Nyquist-Shannon is not fully satisfied during music reproduction.

N-S requires, for instance, an analog signal which is perfectly band-limited. This implies that it must be of infinite duration, which, obviously, is not the case.

However, it is plenty infinite-ish enough for all practical purposes.

and since we are nit-picking, Nyquist-Shannon doesn't have anything to say about quantized samples.
People always forget that part!
Have you seen this video [1] and does that change your opinion? I suggest the full video, but your point is discussed starting at around 3:20

1: https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml