Cd V Vinyl Or Mp3

How does high res audio compare to cds and mp3s.

Cd v vinyl or mp3.

Mp3s are compressed files taking up lesser space. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. The cd is just the first commercially successful digital medium. Take a look at the graph below.

The quality of files. The 2010 s has seen vinyl cds and streaming battle it out for attention. The mp3 was next but that was a huge step. Vinyl vs cd vs streaming.

The digital music format of cds and increasingly mp3s is the dominant choice today for professionals and consumers alike. Original sound is analog by definition. A history of music sources is a history of ever evolving technology and ever lasting love of high fidelity sound. There are several reasons at least one of them valid.

The maximum length of an audio cd is 79 8 minutes while an mp3 s length is much longer. The quality of a digital reproduction is dictated by how many of those samples of the original are made. 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. It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format.

When comparing bitrate or the amount of data transferred per second high resolution audio s bitrate 9 216 kbps is nearly seven times higher than that of cds 1 411 kbps and almost 29 times higher than that of mp3s 320 kbps. Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did. Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.

People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal. Audio cds contain uncompressed files which take up more space. The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle. Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium.

Well maybe this shouldn t be a competition between vinyl and cd but a competition between vinyl and digital.