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The short answer is no. CD's have several limitations due to their very method of recording - limits inherent in being digital devices. Their signal-to-noise ratio is inferior to vinyl, as is their dynamic range.
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While there has always been debate over whether vinyl is superior to CD's; even within the digital realm: CD's are not the pinnacle of digital music recording.
CD's have only 16 bit encoding with 44.1 kHz sample rate. It is quite possible for digital recording to far exceed the limitation of CD's. However the technology and equipment needed to do so is prohibitively expensive for the average consumer as the demand for digital equipment and sound at such high quality is comparatively low.
Vinyl achieves potentially higher quality sound by nature of it's physical existence; there is no "translating" the sound back and forth through digital algorithms, it creates the sound waves based on direct response feedback.
Or in a more abstract comparison: Vinyl is to sound similar to what traditional film is to pictures. Film absorbs the actual light being reflected and burns the image onto a negative. Vinyl scratches a track into the recording based on actual sound waves directly into the physical medium that will be used for playback.
In contrast digital recordings whether sound or images are using a computer to translate what it sees or hears and than stores it in pieces. Much of the playback or visual quality depends on not just the size of that storage but also the algorithms used to translate it back into a usable sound or image.
With a digital picture this means that trying to expand an image may result in pixelization, the image may not have stored enough details or been able to translate enough of them to create a smooth image. With digital audio it can result in compressed dynamic range or what some audiophiles would call "lack of life", it just doesn't sound real.
Truly high quality digital equipment can compete with vinyl for sound quality and film for picture quality but high quality digital equipment is not widely available to the public, the costs are very high. CD's by comparison are generally considered the "average" level or "good enough for the masses" level of digital quality, not the high end.
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