Maybe it was coincidence but vinyl began its resurgence at around the same time as recordings started this trend.
Vinyl vs cd vs digital.
Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history.
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.
Yet there seems to be a large revival of vinyl records mainly due to either the hipster crowd or nostalgics.
The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality.
Some may argue about quality but there s no doubt that having a vinyl of your favourite.
In this video you can hear the real difference between a cd and a vinyl.
Cd players because they use super accurate digital buffers are immune to this.
Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.
For doing this test i recorded the same song three times with this gear.
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.
There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.
A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.
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.
On a cd the separation between the left and right channels used in recording is over 90 db.
A digital recording doesn t degrade overtime like a record does when played too many times.
Take a look at the graph below.
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.
