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\nEveryone has that friend who loves records and insists that analog music is superior to digital. But is that true?Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)Correction: Although this graphic can be found in many seemingly reputable sources, we've...\nEveryone has that friend who loves records and insists that analog music is superior to digital. But is that true?

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Correction: Although this graphic can be found in many seemingly reputable sources, we've ultimately determined that it's misleading. Digital recordings can produce continuous sound waves with no information lost if the sample rate is sufficiently high. The Nyquist-Shannon theorem states that if the digital sample rate is at least twice the highest frequency of the signal, the output is a perfect copy—not an approximation—of the original analog sound wave. SciShow appreciates the many comments on this and regrets the error.\n
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