I'm still not convinced that CDs sound better on the whole than vinyl. They're definitely quieter, last longer, and can sound fantastic if the recording makes optimal use of the available dynamic range, but there still seem to be more bad CD recordings than bad vinyl recordings around.
In fairness to the recording engineers, I tried ripping a bunch of my vinyl albums to CD and found that it was *very* hard to get a decent recording level without clipping on the peaks other than by adding a hefty dose of compression.
Seems like a floating-point recording format would really help here
