What makes tape sound better than vinyl ?

Cd quality is the nearest you can get ro how the artist and engineers n producers wanted it and HEARD it in the control room.....fact.
Btw....napster and mp3 is the reason our industry has'nt progressed.
We had a whole generation who expectations of sound quality were set lower than cassette....that means no dvd no investment in playback hardware manufacturing no studios recording dvd quality...because their numbers are now so low due to the pc/mac home studio..and of course broadcast...we get DAB.....and thats it...even that is subject to corruption by greedy corps who put 4 stations where 1 was inteded and cut ti bw.!
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Digiheads are not welcome here. Even if they are of divine origin.

Now...recovery hopefully...unlimited net bw and disc storage measns no need for compression...mp3..dead and now a new generation and back to 1985 to start again where we left off.
The King is dead
Long live the King :)

WHAT!

It’s a supreme irony that the single most important advantage that CDs have ON PAPER -dynamic range - which is obviously (on paper) what, 40 or 50 times greater than vinyl or audio cassette? You know what I’m talking about. 90 dB dynamic range and 90 dB Signal to Noise Ratio. It sure sold me. OK, the irony is with all the aggressive dynamic range compression over the past twenty years the dynamic range of the highly touted CD has been compacted down to all red for many CDs, some SACDs, quite a few LPs. One need only take a gander at the Official Dynamic Range Database to see what the industry has wrought. But the situation is even worse than that. Even with uncompressed CDs the sound quality of digital lacks the color, tonality, and fullness in the bass that vinyl and cassettes provide as a matter of course. The King has no clothes.