Why vinyl sounds better than cd or not according to rolling stone magazine sales of vinyl albums continue to grow setting a new record in 2010.
Does vinyl sound better than cds.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
The more information running past the needle per second the more detailed the sound being reproduced.
So a record spinning at 45rpm will sound better than the same one built to spin at 33 1 3rpm.
So why does vinyl sound better than cds especially since cds are a newer technology.
About 2 percent in 2014.
Vinyl records play an analog recording while cds play a digital recording.
Some listeners honestly feel that the defects vinyl introduces somehow make it more attractive or warmer but from any objective standpoint there s no justification in calling the sound of vinyl records better submit a question to ask the expert.
Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
The issue with bad sounding cds emerged in the late 90s when engineers found out that they could make cds sound much louder than vinyl which have a limitation related to groove depth that is not existent in digital formatted cds.
It s all about mastering good mastered cds should be better than equivalent vinyl.
The latter is usually preferred for an album as it means you can fit more tracks onto a single disc but it is becoming slightly more popular to.