Does Vinyl Sound Better Than Flac

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Does vinyl sound better than flac.

It happens because audio files get compressed to make them small enough to store thousands of them on the phone and to stream online. Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium. Vinyl sounds better than mp3s ever could. The results may surprise you as they did us.

There isn t a thing called vinyl audio file. Most of the music is broadcast in some lossy format where details are missed and the overall quality is reduced. Check out our listening results. It s true that in some cases lps are mastered differently sometimes better than the digital version though in many cases the record is cut from the same master track anyway.

Yes a cd i. We compare the sound quality of analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac on a 100k stereo setup. There are several reasons at least one of them valid. However note that the reason why these versions sound better has nothing to do with the format itself and the cds may be perfectly fine and unraped.

Lossless digital is better from a sound quality perspective assuming decent source material mastering. When this version is sold as a hi rez 24 192 flac or pressed onto vinyl it will sound better than the cd version which suffers from sometimes severely reduced dynamics.