by JH 33 Replies latest jw friends
I grew up with vinyl records and I found the sound great except for the scratches and dust on the records. Today, I think that no one plays vinyl records anymore or just threw them all away.
If you take away the dust and scratches of the vinyl disc, did you prefer the sound of the vinyl records compared to the sound of the digital CD's we have today?
Here is an article on the subject.
Vinyl certainly can sound better than a CD. CDs have relatively low resolution compared to analog's "infinite" sample rate. But that will change with DVD-Audio and SACD. The two newer formats have high enough resolution to sound as good as any analog source.
But to answer your question more directly: I never owned any vinyl... I only listen to CDs.
LP`s were great in there time but the sound does not even compare to the sound of a CD not even close. I bought a very exspensive stero system 15 years ago the needle has never touched a LP but I have had the CD player in getting fixed a couple of times...
Definitely, the sound isn't the same. A CD has a clean sound to it, digital sound. The vinyl record needed a good needle and cartridge to produce a good sound. The bottom line is that you need a perfect sin wave to reproduce the music perfectly. Vinyl records had that, but they also had the scratches with it too.
When I heard a CD player for the first time, I was blown away by the clarity of sound. CDs are much better, IMO.
drwtsn32,
Nothing personal bud but you need to go back and read your post, I think you got it backwards. Was it not the higher resolution that made CD`s great?
Vinyl can sound better than typical CDs, but to hear it you need a virtually brand new record and very good, therefore expensive, equipment. After a good deal of use, older vinyl is definitely not as nice to listen to as CDs. And I don't miss the clicks, pops and other surface noise.
But a lot of people listen to MP3 recordings on a computer sound system or toy MP3 player, so they'd hardly notice a difference between vinyl and CDs.
Good point about the new digital formats, DR. The present format was designed to be on the edge of good sound technically, which means it doesn't quite make it for critical listening.
AlanF
Vinyl and the wind up gramaphones are history.
ISP
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