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.

[AndyH-ha]

Perhaps these have exceptionally low cost soundcards. There isn't actually a DAC, they depend on the intrinsic low-pass filter quality of speaker coils to sort-of produce continuous waveforms from the pulses they output.