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Vinyl vs cd loudness.
Much of whether cd or vinyl sounds better will relate to your system the quality of your source and personal preference but there s reason there remains space and demand for both to exist in this era of ever improving streaming services and hi res downloads.
So no vinyl isn t better than digital music but it offers several advantages because of the fact that loudness war mixing isn t feasible on the medium.
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For digital to truly eclipse vinyl thousands of records from the 1990s onward would need a remaster.
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The amplifier then raises the voltage of the signal to a level powerful enough to drive your speaker.
Cd vs vinyl record comparison.
The practice of focusing on loudness in audio mastering can be traced back to the introduction of the compact disc but also existed to some extent when the vinyl phonograph record was the primary released recording medium and when 7 inch singles were played on jukebox machines in clubs and bars.
A vinyl record has a groove carved into it that mirrors the original sound s waveform.
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In your home stereo the cd or dvd player takes this digital recording and converts it to an analog signal which is fed to your amplifier.
With the vinyl master there is a physical limit to what can be fed to the cutting head of the lathe and so heavily clipped masters are not welcome and can only be accommodated if at all by serious.
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A digital master for cd has to have a 16 bit word length and it can be as loud and as limited as the client s taste or insecurity dictates.
Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.
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