 (Note that vinyl records may be mastered differently from their digital versions. ) In the amplification stage    ,     vacuum-tube electronics remain popular, despite most other applications having since abandoned tubesfor solid state amplifiers.
<meaning-changed>  (Note that vinyl records may be mastered differently from their digital versions. ) In the amplification stage    ,     vacuum-tube electronics remain popular, despite most other applications having since abandoned tubesfor solid state amplifiers.
 (Note that vinyl records may be mastered differently from their digital versions. ) In the amplification stage Sound sources Audiophiles play music from a variety of sources including phonograph records, compact discs (CDs), and digital audio files that are either uncompressed or are losslessly compressed, such as FLAC, DSD, Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless and Apple Lossless (ALAC), in contrast to lossy compression, such as in MP3 encoding. From the early 1990s, CDs were the most common source of high-quality music. Nevertheless, turntables, tonearms, and magnetic cartridges are still used, despite the difficulties of keeping records free from dust and the delicate set-up associated with turntables. , vacuum-tube electronics remain popular, despite most other applications having since abandoned tubesfor solid state amplifiers.