Vinyl Vs Cd Vs Digital

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 always be inferior to vinyl.

Vinyl vs cd vs digital.

Original sound is analog by definition. I can go on but you get the point. Maybe it was coincidence but vinyl began its resurgence at around the same time as recordings started this trend. For doing this test i recorded the same song three times with this gear.

Digital got its act together but not until the death of the cd. Cd players because they use super accurate digital buffers are immune to this. In this video you can hear the real difference between a cd and a vinyl. Take a look at the graph below.

Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography. A digital recording doesn t degrade overtime like a record does when played too many times. There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats. Even the standard redbook cd 44khz 16 bit resolution has about a 26db advantage to vinyl with respect to dynamic range and at least a 40 50 db advantage in stereo separation as well as unmeasurable wow and flutter.

A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war with the rise of digital music cds included it s possible to make a track sound louder than it naturally should. It wasn t long before vinyl recordings of the same content often had better sound quality at normal listening volumes simply because they had higher dynamic range. Digital music is the most convenient way to listen to music today whether it s obtained legally or not.

Some may argue about quality but there s no doubt that having a vinyl of your favourite. The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality.