Cd audio is compressed in comparison to vinyl that was originally recorded in analog.
Cd s sound better than vinyl engineers.
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.
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.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
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.
By 2014 vinyl s resurgence as a marketable product and fetish property appeared.
The cd versus vinyl debate and by extension the debate over digital versus analog sound has only grown.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
About 2 percent in 2014.
Cd for sure is better than mp3 and streaming due to compression and is no comparison to a vinyl record.
It can take a bit more equipment to get that perfect sound out of vinyl than cd s but many people feel it is worth it.
But it will sound more vinyl y if that s your preference.
The more information running past the needle per second the more detailed the sound being reproduced.
About 2 percent in 2014.
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.
It s more apparent if you listen to an.
There s basically nothing you can do to make an hour long.
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.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd.
Cd s or other uncompressed digital sources sound much better than vinyl.
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.
Or is there some sort of retro hype going on.
So a record spinning at 45rpm will sound better than the same one built to spin at 33 1 3rpm.
