Hey - LP's are analog which means they have more BW to deliver than a typical CD, assuming you have a good needle. I'd rather have a bit of hiss with pure sound than CD audio anyday. However, you had to deal with scratches back then so the trade off's for the CD were too good to pass up.
If this this thing removes the scratches too, it might be the perfect audio device except for one thing - DVDAudio exists (Which I have of course and have had for many years). DVDAudio (not to be confused with dts) takes the CD audio problem (Which is lack of resolution) and fixes it with massive BW. Think a 800 MB CD (Red book audio squeezes more data on a CD than Orange book data) and put that same amount of music into say 4 GB, and the fact that its digital is not problem anymore because you can't hear it! It is beyond your comprehension.
So, if I actually have a choice, DVDAudio is it. But some old scratcheless LP's would also be good.
Come 1985 though and Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (The first pure digital recording), then an LP is no advatage, or barely. Between then and the begining of the 2000's, you had all recordings done with a max sample rate of 48000 Hz - not much better than the CD's 44.1 Khz. So, you might as well just own the CD.
Only now are they starting to make high sample rate recordings again.
-S
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