sb,

you could say the same thing of cd if magazine articles were the yardstick. magazines have to say things are improving in order to sell themselves and create that sense that what we have isn;t good enough anymore - if you were paranoid you might say they were in collusion with the manufaturers but i couldn;t possibly comment on that . with cd there are numerous ways to extend the frequency of what is on the cd via interpolation however with most loudspeakers unable to produce much above 25khz anyway what's the point. btw iirc 25khz is the absolute max frequency you'll get out of vinyl anyway and this will degrade lower with each playback - down to a heady 8khz - or phone call bandwidth after 80 plays according to the riaa even after 1 play it's down to 20khz which is less than cd's maximum frequency. so i'd suggest that if you like vinyl better than cd it's not down to sampling frequency - it's something else - perhaps romantacism?