See our youtube debate.
Vinyl vs mo3.
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.
The results may surprise you as they did us.
Can you tell the difference.
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.
The quality of a digital reproduction is dictated by how many of those samples of the original are made.
Vinyl or cd or mp3.
Check out our listening results.
Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.
It s for this reason that vinyl sounds better than digital.
Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did.
Original sound is analog by definition.
For sure hi res digital music is a vastly superior format in both convenience and quality so why would someone side with vinyl over mp3 or streaming.
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.
The pressings are made straight from the masters and contain all of the detail the artist intended.
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Cd vs vinyl record comparison.
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.
In the time that the dominance of cds started to erode around the turn of the millennium we ve come to understand the wide range of how mp3s can sound how cymbals on a circa 2002 128k mp3 sound.
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.
We compare the sound quality of analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac on a 100k stereo setup.
So is vinyl better.
Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times i.
Vinyl is a lossless format.
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.