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Cd s sound better than vinyl engineers.
Cd s or other uncompressed digital sources sound much better than vinyl.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
It s more apparent if you listen to an.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
Is this growth because as some respected sources breathlessly state i m looking at you wired magazine vinyl sounds better than digital media.
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.
Or is there some sort of retro hype going on.
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.
About 2 percent in 2014.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
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.
Lp s have many sonic drawbacks including wow flutter ticks pops limited frequency.
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.
So a record spinning at 45rpm will sound better than the same one built to spin at 33 1 3rpm.
Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd.
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.
Cd audio is compressed in comparison to vinyl that was originally recorded in analog.
But it will sound more vinyl y if that s your preference.
About 2 percent in 2014.
I ve still got hundreds or lp s but i almost never play them.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
By 2014 vinyl s resurgence as a marketable product and fetish property appeared.
