These nicer masters tend to also be used on other audiophile digital formats, such as "High resolution" downloads, Super Audio CDs, DVD-Audio, and other niche formats.
But unlike Vinyl those are designed to rot away over time. When you buy vinyl, you can rip & use it and store the vinyl somewhere save without having to worry about losing it,ever.
You can “rip” all these formats (downloads are of course “pre-ripped”) and the physical formats I mentioned are definitely not designed to rot. Unlike Vinyl, they also sound exactly the same each time you play them, since they are not worn by the playback head.
