Vinyl Vs Mo3

We compare the sound quality of analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac on a 100k stereo setup.

Vinyl vs mo3.

The results may surprise you as they did us. Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times i. Vinyl is a lossless format. See our youtube debate.

Cd vs vinyl record comparison. If you want to join us. Take a look at the graph below. The pressings are made straight from the masters and contain all of the detail the artist intended.

The quality of a digital reproduction is dictated by how many of those samples of the original are made. Can you tell the difference. Original sound is analog by definition. Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.

A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. A digital recording takes snapshots of the analog signal at a certain rate for cds it is 44 100 times per second and measures each snapshot with a certain accuracy for cds it is 16 bit which. It s for this reason that vinyl sounds better than digital. Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.

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. 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. So is vinyl better. Vinyl or cd or mp3.

For comparison listening to vinyl as opposed to digital is like viewing the mona lisa with your own eyes rather than looking at a picture of it on a smartphone. Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did. Now that digital music is starting to become less and less poorly mixed you d think that vinyl would be on its way out again. It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format.

Check out our listening results.