Vinyl is equivalent to which digital bit-depth and sampling rate? Options

[KMD]

What sample rate and bit depth , dithered, would create a digital recording with the same bandwidth and signal to noise ratio as vinyl

[KMD]

Ok so I'm getting 44Khz 12 Bit from there. People are happy listening to Vinyl but would they be happy listenning to 44/12Bit Digital ? This is relevant to the formats discussion. Would anyone like to convert a CD to 44/12 dithered so people on the forum can hear what it sounds like.

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Ok so I'm getting 44Khz 12 Bit from there. People are happy listening to Vinyl but would they be happy listenning to 44/12Bit Digital ? This is relevant to the formats discussion. Would anyone like to convert a CD to 44/12 dithered so people on the forum can hear what it sounds like.

People have been listening to 32kHz 14-bits companded to 10-bits throughout the UK and much of Europe for years...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICAM

lossyWAV often keeps less than 12-bits, without audible degradation...
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LossyWAV

That thread linked by Kees de Visser almost has it nailed. You'd need some weird pre/de-emphasis and maybe companding or noise shaping to make the digital as bad as vinyl at the frequency extremes. Even then, the digital would still be distortion-free (unless you clip).

Cheers,
David.