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quoted 2 lines A well-mastered vinyl 12" can contain harmonics up to 30 kHz, which

> A well-mastered vinyl 12" can contain harmonics up to 30 kHz, which > would be chopped dead on CD at 20 kHz. Brick wall.

Err, yeah, but most likely not a damn one of you could ever hear anything close to 30 kHz, & if by some chance biological fluke you managed to have that ability, you would never find any sound system that could produce those frequencies. It's basically around a 20 kHz ceiling at best for both human ears & sound systems, & at the sampling rate of CDs, they can represent frequencies up to 22.05 kHz. Of course, that doesn't mean they are represented well. CDs have a standard sampling rate that is at the bare minimum of what can represent the basic gist of high frequencies & that is probably their biggest audio flaw. 96 kHz certainly would be nice. But I'm not writing to praise CDs over vinyl or vinyl over CDs because that's stupid. I like both, they both have good & bad aspects, & beyond that it's personal taste. I'm writing to request an end to this topic. This was the topic that got me to quit this list about a year ago after only being on it for one day (about 60 vinyl vs. CD messages that day got me off immediately) & it took me until about a month ago to resubscribe, so please don't destroy the list again. Just enjoy music your own way. Music always sounds good. Marc Poirier