Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
Cd s sound better than vinyl engineers.
Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd.
Cd audio is compressed in comparison to vinyl that was originally recorded in analog.
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.
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.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
Lp s have many sonic drawbacks including wow flutter ticks pops limited frequency.
But it will sound more vinyl y if that s your preference.
Or is there some sort of retro hype going on.
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.
Cd s or other uncompressed digital sources sound much better than vinyl.
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.
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 more information running past the needle per second the more detailed the sound being reproduced.
Cd for sure is better than mp3 and streaming due to compression and is no comparison to a vinyl record.
About 2 percent in 2014.
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.
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.
So a record spinning at 45rpm will sound better than the same one built to spin at 33 1 3rpm.
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.
