What vinyl can t do.
Vinyl vs cd quality science.
The cd always comes up technically better if you measure it with scientific.
Cds are not affected by surface noise because they use light.
A digital recording doesn t degrade overtime like a record does when played too many times.
Original sound is analog by definition.
Cds have a better signal to noise ratio i e.
Playback and inconsistencies though cd s sample rate is high and we re all well aware how good they sound the idea of its being converted once into digital and then back to analogue losing and approximating information seems to infer it will always be inferior to vinyl.
These days many records are made using playback of a digital file so vinyl preference cannot be attributed solely to the differences in the way the sound wave is reproduced.
They sound different and that s exactly the point.
Dust particles in the grooves of an lp cause crackles and ticks that are present and audible no matter how well you clean the record.
There is less interference from hissing turntable rumble etc better stereo channel separation and have no variation in playback speed.
And a cd s digital storage method means the high and low frequencies don t need to be tweaked as they are on vinyl.
Vinyl is great but the idea that its sound quality is superior to that of uncompressed digital recordings is preposterous.
A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.
From a technical standpoint digital cd audio quality is clearly superior to vinyl.
Why vinyl sounds better than cd.
Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.
Host john dankosky to talk about the science of audio and how perceptions can shape the sound experience.
Take a look at the graph below.
That will try to improve low quality mp3 so it.
Even the standard redbook cd 44khz 16 bit resolution has about a 26db advantage to vinyl with respect to dynamic range and at least a 40 50 db advantage in stereo separation as well as unmeasurable wow and flutter.
