New LPs with CDs inside

My purpose in posting this thread was partly to find out if progress in hardware & software has led anyone to change his assumption regarding the superiority of either medium. As the gap between these media has narrowed, it's interesting to try & describe the small remaining differences between the two. My own observation is that both the vinyl and CD in some of these combined package releases is of high quality, which somewhat removes from the discussion the variability of quality that one often finds from release to release in either medium. Finally, in recent years CD players have gotten so good that it's more interesting to compare them to record players than to other CD players.

The Petty release is something of a break-through insofar has he allows that purchasers of audiophile vinyl might also enjoy an uncompressed CD. What a concept!

Based upon listening to some CDs that purport to use no compression, I agree that compression may be the main offender in the compromised sonics of RBCD-- moreso than sampling rate.

It's interesting how some new vinyl releases are coming through with a companion CD and others with a free MP3 download. It must cost the record company almost nothing to add these bonuses, and it really does leverage the marketing of vinyl into multiple audiences.