Does Vinyl Sound Better Than Cassette

Some formats age better than others.

Does vinyl sound better than cassette.

There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats. There are many questions that can be answered definitively on the differences between cds and vinyl but if what you seek is proof that one sounds better than the other you might be quite disappointed. And that s the format that recording professionals cared about. We find out the answer once and for all.

That all started to change with the advent of the compact disc. Vintage music perhaps the growth in vinyl sales has made cassette tapes comeback inevitable. But it will sound. I have heard that there are poor sounding records and i guess this is one of them.

Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd. Amazingly the cassette sounded better than the vinyl. Updated mar 26 2019. The cassette is 40 years old and in my opinion the sound quality is still above the average.

All of that to say while vinyl and cassette ruled the day commercially in the 70s and 80s there was no debate as to which format sounded better. Cassettes on the other hand are nowhere to be found. 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. If you were serious about your sound you listened to vinyl.

Posted nov 19 2014. I took the cassette and made a listening comparison. Thanks to superior sound quality and a susceptibility to scratching records are still first choice for many on the club scene.