Most people don’t realize this, but the major defect of records, especially worn ones, is noise, not audio quality. Good records that are well-kept are able to reproduce sounds that CDs shudder to even attempt! This is because CDs need to be filtered so that no frequencies higher than, oh, 22 kHz or so, get accidentally recorded and wind up getting “aliased” as lower frequencies on playback. Records, on the other hand, are not digital. An exact groove is cut into the surface of the master, which is copied to make your record. If the record is well-maintained and high-quality playback equipment is used, any record will sound better than a CD of the same recording.
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