The results may surprise you as they did us.
Vinyl vs mo3.
Take a look at the graph below.
It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format.
It s for this reason that vinyl sounds better than digital.
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Can you tell the difference.
The pressings are made straight from the masters and contain all of the detail the artist intended.
Original sound is analog by definition.
Vinyl or cd or mp3.
So is vinyl better.
The quality of a digital reproduction is dictated by how many of those samples of the original are made.
Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.
Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.
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.
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.
Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did.
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.
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.
As compressed mp3 files and digital streaming services from youtube to pandora have become the norm for music listening vinyl sales have skyrocketed from under a million in 2007 to potentially.
See our youtube debate.
Vinyl is a lossless format.
A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.
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.
Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times i.
Check out our listening results.
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.