How better is a Turntable compared to a CD?

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the signal's noise floor creates a "time smear" way above better crystal oscillator sub nanosecond jitter, dithered 16 bit CD may "only" have single digit ns time resolution

the Shannon-Hartley Channel Capacity Theorem applies to analog signals as well as digital - you simply can't get more than BW*SN bits out of any "channel" - including vinyl

and vinyl's potential ~2x higher bandwidth doesn't come close to making up for the higher noise floor

so CD noise floor advantage by itself gives more accurate audio frequency "time" detail than vinyl playback before adding in all of (orders of magnitude larger) phonograph mechanical and time varying geometry arm ,cantilever, stylus contact patch "time smearing" errors
 
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