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Cd vs vinyl sound quality.
From a technical standpoint digital cd audio quality is clearly superior to vinyl.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
A turntable with a worn out needle won t be able to accurately convey the music within the grooves just as a stereo with blown out speakers won t properly deliver the data on a cd.
The results may surprise you as they did us.
They sound different and that s exactly the point.
Vinyl can still push music to the limits of its dynamic range 55 70db but it often shies away from doing so in order to maintain sound quality.
Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.
Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level.
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.
There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often.
The recording industry has a new standard for dvd audio discs that will greatly improve the sound quality.
There is less interference from hissing turntable rumble etc better stereo channel separation and have no variation in playback speed.
See our youtube debate.
Still as artists and labels hop on the vinyl trend some new vinyl releases may be mastered from cd quality audio not the high resolution formats audiophiles and folks like neil young adore.
Cds have a better signal to noise ratio i e.
What vinyl can t do.
The table below lists the sampling rate and the accuracy for cd recordings and the maximum sampling rate and accuracy for dvd recordings.
Having a proper sound system to play your cds or vinyl records through greatly affects the quality.
Vinyl is great but the idea that its sound quality is superior to that of uncompressed digital recordings is preposterous.
That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings.
Playback and inconsistencies though cd s sample rate is high and we re all well aware how good they sound the idea of its being converted once into digital and then back to analogue losing and approximating information seems to infer it will.
