So That's What It Is About Vinyl . . .

[Guest MBarrett]

I have oft tried to get a handle on my preference for vinyl over digital format.

Today's paper may have the answer . . . !

Many audio purists, musicians and engineers - among them Sir George Martin - argue that the traditional vinyl disc offers better sound as it carries frequencies which, although above the range of our hearing are nevertheless perceived by the brain and therefore add to the realism and thus to our enjoyment of recorded music.

MB

[Guest Carl Dixon]

I agree with the comments. A CD is a sampled format....in steps, missing out on information. Then, we compress it to MP3. A record (as long as it was an analogue recording) may suffer from tape hiss and all those other wonderful issues, at least has a full bandwidth and dynamic range to play with.

Edited June 13, 2008 by Carl Dixon

[Guest]

I have oft tried to get a handle on my preference for vinyl over digital format.

Today's paper may have the answer . . . !

MB

GIVE ME THE CRACKLES AND THE 'TINNY' QUALITY ANYDAY. MANY A TIME I'VE TURNED THE BASS OFF ON A CD. IT JUST DOESN'T SOUND THE SAME!!

[Sutty]

there's a load of factual techie stuff about algorithms and all that on the web about this, but one problem is mp3's discard frequencies in the recording that we can't hear, which might appear ok... but these frequencies affect the sounds we can hear and therefore what we are listening to as the mp3, so an mp3 is a less accurate form of recording than recording directly onto a cd recorder deck plugged into your hifi. it will always sound different. all recordings are artificially altered anyway from their inception, so it's down to each human's audible interpretation, not science, whether that's an improvement, or not.

i'll get me coat LOL

Edited June 14, 2008 by Sutty

[Guest mel brat]

...and then there's the smell...!

[Guest Carl Dixon]

https://www.switched.com/2008/06/14/yes-vinyl-is-back-again/