Vinyl Vs Cd Test

Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.

Vinyl vs cd test.

Yes it s 2018 and youtube spotify and pandora are pretty great but hear me out. Vinyl record sales surpassed cds for the first time in decades. Cd vs vinyl record comparison. The 2020s have officially begun but based on the music.

Production studios for large entertainment companies made the switch to digital and realized that the new format afforded new ways to edit music. Why you should consider buying music on vinyl cd and music files. Unfortunately no one appears to have done a double blind listener test comparing vinyl to cds but there is a good study from florida state s john geringer and patrick dunnigan doing that with. Ldprod istock via getty images.

15 2018 8 47 a m. Albarry m1008 power amplifiers accuphase dp 78 cd. Audio research ls 17 preamplifier. The rest of it dates back to sometime in the 1990s when the cd all but killed off vinyl in the first place.

So what we found was that vinyl was a. Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times i. Original sound is analog by definition. And we were testing cartridges at that time and it was quite apparent that the amount of distortion coming out of these devices was very high compared to cd.

However some started to take it a little too far and it wound up being known as the.