it's not a question of doing a blind test on random songs to see if the person can tell which songs are played from vinyl or digital.

There used to be entire vinyl ripping groups for certain genres which DJs would play. Maybe there still are. Some people would rip and upload tracks that were promos, and the real release with artwork, sleeve, etc. would arrive maybe a month later or something. Even with those mp3s as 320kbs files, the real vinyl copy would sound better every time. It would be impossible to not notice it.

 

And also in the brain—someone clever said we ingest the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic every year.
How much microplastic the body then stores or breaks down is the new question for the future.

Since @Xupito always has such a great sense of humor: What did he die of?
He listened to too many vinyl records and drank mineral water from PET bottles. The microplastics ultimately killed him.

 

I used to mix live between vinyl and early MP3's using traktor in sets and the 128 MP3's sounded so bad. Once lossless became common no one would know which is which when being mixed.

 

"Is making"? I thought it has been back for the last 10-15 years, at least? It has been the only physical media format for the longest time.

The problem with it all is that the pricing is now off the charts, even for used vinyl. What used to cost $35 is now $60-70. New vinyl has always been relatively expensive.

One major problem is also that you have no way of knowing which master or version was used for the vinyl reissue. Buying the latest greatest release might get you a WORSE copy than some previous version, which doesn't make much sense. Even less, if you paid $50 for it.

Actually, people have been saying that CD is coming back. Gen Alpha is already collecting them. Even if the physical collectable object is smaller, it is uncompressed audio, and there's plenty of room for bonus tracks etc.

 

The wax cylinder long prized for it's it lo-fi grit and charm is seeing a huge resurgence in popularity amongst gen-z listeners yearning for a warm fuzzy sound after years of listening to pristine digital formats.

 

That was my point. Ripping with good convertors alone would get it even closer, and then lossless compression. Even further, the files being closer to from the DAW session. But if you ask, and the average joe says they think vinyl sounds better, there is a good chance that's what they remember and what forms their opinion.