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Each time this topic has another life cycle I go again to a test to settle
it.

Having its origin in this group a digital copy was made from an lp. A
blind test was done to see if which was playing at any given time could be
determined beyond guessing alone. It could not. Whatever was on the lp
was captured in the digital to the degree source could not be determined.

So when we see an lp and a digital recording compared in the present case
we must first conclude based on the previous test, that something in the
content was altered in going from lp to digital. The tests are different
of course. In the previous test it made no matter which was preferred
because if no difference could be spotted it was a mute question. If in
the current test differences so large as to evoke preferences are heard our
conclusion about change in content is also warrented.

In the first test "better" was the same. In the current test it was
different but has next to no relevance on the question of "better" because
we must conclude the content is different. The "better" is the original
content not the medium.