Digital LP’s

Today's recordings are all high-res digital masters. Releasing them on vinyl format isn't meant to improve the sound quality at all. From the artist's and label's standpoint, vinyl releases (limited or standard) is to make a higher profit margin per unit sold. The sound quality of vinyl, even today's vinyl won't be as good as the high-rez digital recording because vinyl has medium format limitations. This is why recent vinyl remasters and even new releases will have a compressed dynamic range to fit the format or the producer's remastering goals.

CDs don't suffer from the same dynamic compression issues that vinyl does because the format can hold more information.  A caveat to this is when you have a double vinyl release that has 2 or 3 songs, max per side of vinyl. In this case, they're allowing the vinyl the opportunity to show its potential as a music format.

I also think one has to be aware when buying either vinyl or CDs, of the time period in which the original recording was released. Pre-CD ear, many albums sound better on vinyl, post CD-era when vinyl releases were going away, the original CD release will sound better than a post-CD era vinyl re-master. 

Then there are examples of my recent digital purchases of high-res recordings when I buy the CD. I've listened to both and they sound identical in soundstage, dynamic range and clarity.

My recent vinyl purchases tend towards completing an artist's catalog in my collection or original used 1st/2nd pressing vinyl. I don't prefer any particular format over the other because when I'm critically/purposefully listening to an album, I listen in the best format that I have. 

“Has anyone noticed that LP’s made from digital sources don’t sound as good as actual CDs.”

Not true entirely…MoFi fiasco proved that records made from digital files not only sounds great but also indistinguishable from records made from master tapes.

It’s not the format…it’s the original source and mastering technique that ultimately matters as to how a recording will sound in your space.

@rvpiano   Thanks for opening this thread.  I have had the same question for years.  I have not  knowingly bought a digitally recorded vinyl album since the 80's.  The question for me has always been, what is the point of putting this digital recording on vinyl?  At this point I think the answer, from a sound quality point of view, is there is no reason. 

The only possible reason I could ever come up with is that the physical act of the stylus dragging through the groove somehow creates some good distortion.  Kinda like a tube does.  Probably not. 

bipod72

The sound quality of vinyl, even today’s vinyl won’t be as good as the high-rez digital recording because vinyl has medium format limitations.

It often doesn’t work that way in practice. It is very common for record companies to put a recording’s highest dynamic range version on LP. Check the dynamic range database - you might be surprised. It’s all part of the Loudness wars.

CDs don’t suffer from the same dynamic compression issues that vinyl does because the format can hold more information.

But that it might hold more information doesn’t ensure that the particular pressing will take advantage of that. Often it doesn’t.

And of course, HF on LP far exceeds what can be put on CD.

To answer the OP's initial question, no I have not noticed that.  What I have noticed is that format is secondary to mastering choices and other "care" taken with the recording itself.

Plus, digital recording goes back quite a few decades at this point.  There's lots of good music that never saw pure analog.  

There sure is a lot of infopinion and expectation bias in this thread...

I do agree that vinyl can sound different even when I have the same general master in digital and LP, and I attribute that to the playback chain, and I also agree that choice of vinyl playback hardware is in effect tuning the system.  

I have also purchased some vinyl in the hopes that the master isn't as brickwalled as the CD or other digital version, with moderate but not universal success.

Finally, I mostly buy LPs not because of sound preference but because I like an album enough to (1) reward the artist with a higher margin purchase and (2) have a more physical artifact to enjoy.  It's like making a martini when I put on an LP, and it also "forces" me to listen to at least a whole side if not a whole album.  Plus the colored vinyl looks cool while it's spinning.