The cd is just the first commercially successful digital medium.
Cd v vinyl or mp3.
Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.
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 is why mp3 with relatively few samples is so poor and hi res audio with far more is the closest we have to a studio recording.
The digital music format of cds and increasingly mp3s is the dominant choice today for professionals and consumers alike.
Let s take a trip to a record store and i ll tell you the four reasons why 12 vinyl records are better than digital mp3.
How does high res audio compare to cds and mp3s.
There are several reasons at least one of them valid.
Mp3s are compressed files taking up lesser space.
Audio cds contain uncompressed files which take up more space.
Take a look at the graph below.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
Original sound is analog by definition.
The 2010 s has seen vinyl cds and streaming battle it out for attention.
A digital recording takes snapshots of the analog signal at a certain rate for.
Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium.
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.
A history of music sources is a history of ever evolving technology and ever lasting love of high fidelity sound.
Well maybe this shouldn t be a competition between vinyl and cd but a competition between vinyl and digital.
It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format.
Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did.
The mp3 was next but that was a huge step.
The quality of a digital reproduction is dictated by how many of those samples of the original are made.
The maximum length of an audio cd is 79 8 minutes while an mp3 s length is much longer.
The quality of files.
The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle.
