By 2014 vinyl s resurgence as a marketable product and fetish property appeared.
Cd s sound better than vinyl engineers.
Cd s or other uncompressed digital sources sound much better than vinyl.
It s more apparent if you listen to an.
Or is there some sort of retro hype going on.
But it will sound more vinyl y if that s your preference.
Is this growth because as some respected sources breathlessly state i m looking at you wired magazine vinyl sounds better than digital media.
I ve still got hundreds or lp s but i almost never play them.
The latter is usually preferred for an album as it means you can fit more tracks onto a single disc but it is becoming slightly more popular to favour sound over convenience especially with re issues.
Lp s have many sonic drawbacks including wow flutter ticks pops limited frequency.
Cd audio is compressed in comparison to vinyl that was originally recorded in analog.
So a record spinning at 45rpm will sound better than the same one built to spin at 33 1 3rpm.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
Why vinyl sounds better than cd or not according to rolling stone magazine sales of vinyl albums continue to grow setting a new record in 2010.
Cd for sure is better than mp3 and streaming due to compression and is no comparison to a vinyl record.
If a cd sounds better than vinyl only because i play it through a superior sound system then by he same logic so would vinyl through that same sounds system.
The cd versus vinyl debate and by extension the debate over digital versus analog sound has only grown.
Surely as the compact disc is increasingly dwarfed by hard drives and ipods as the preferred place to house digital tracks vinyl will remain the one bastion of tangible music.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
There s basically nothing you can do to make an hour long.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
But through this small three part exploration i did discover that vinyl a medium i formerly wrote off as an antiquated relic can sound just as good if not better than the contemporary cd.
The more information running past the needle per second the more detailed the sound being reproduced.
About 2 percent in 2014.
Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd.
