Vinyl > Digital on HowStuffWorks, Is their explanation incorrect? Options

[snoozer]

My friend won't give in that he just likes the motions of putting his records on his turntable but he found this website:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm

This means that the waveforms from a vinyl recording can be much more accurate, and that can be heard in the richness of the sound.

From the graph above you can see that CD quality audio does not do a very good job of replicating the original signal. (at 16/44.1)

I referred him to this:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Vinyl_Myths
(http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=85436)

I'm trying to understand the specifics but I'm a little lost. Are these two contradictory? Could someone clear up where HowStuffWorks might be disseminating wrong info?

This post has been edited by Peter: Feb 19 2009, 02:32

Reason for edit: Link now less search engine friendly.

[Axon]

Here's what I put down on the contact us page....

Your vinyl vs cd article, question487.htm, is completely wrong, and is misleading a lot of people.The waveform is a lie (CDs do not output square waves), vinyl recordings lose lots of information, etc. I will let as many people as possible know how incompetent the authorship is on this site, to ensure you don't mislead anybody else.

This is definitely worth a blog post and facebook remark/digg thumbs down/etc for anybody who can swing it. After some googling I can see this page is very influential.