CDs Vs LPs

@geoffkait said:

The data that’s on the CD is not being 100% retrieved during playback. Not by a long shot. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

It would be refreshing if, just once, you would back up your assertions with some corroborating evidence.

As @clearthink pointed out:

There should be no "dropouts" unless of course there is a substantial failure, defect or fault in the playback system because the CD audio standard relies on Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Coding by using 24 8 bit words and encoding them in a RS code with parity check symbols.

And as I pointed out, the Nyquist Shannon algorithm ensures that nothing is lost in the digitization and conversion to analog process. There is NOTHING lost in a well recorded and mastered CD compared to an LP. In fact, given the vastly superior dynamic range of a CD compared to an LP, and the perfect reproduction of the data stream from a CD compared to the distorted output of an LP cartridge, a CD is clearly capable of vastly better reproduction.

Garbage in = garbage out. 

oops. naughty naughty...

It depends on the specific recording then. 

It depends on the specific recording then. That's assuming a good quality pressing in good condition still.   That's less of an issue with CDs. 

I mostly stream these days.  With records I generally play once, convert to digital, then stream from music server.