Given that compressed digital audio is considerably lower in quality than either cds or vinyl consumer certainly seem to care a lot less about audio quality than convenience.
Is vinyl higher quality than cd.
It wasn t long before vinyl recordings of the same content often had better sound quality at normal listening volumes simply because they had higher dynamic range.
Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium.
There is less interference from hissing turntable rumble etc better stereo channel separation and have no variation in playback speed.
By every measure digital audio is superior to analog.
Cd has about a 26db dynamic advantage over vinyl and about 40 50db better stereo separation.
Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level.
Here are the reasons why.
But it will sound more vinyl y if that s your preference.
People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal processing.
But that s kind of an.
Yes a cd i.
Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd.
And so are mp3 and aac files with bit rates above 300k which in most cases are indistinguishable from cds.
Digital got its act together but not until the death of the cd.
From a technical standpoint digital cd audio quality is clearly superior to vinyl.
The recording industry has a new standard for dvd audio discs that will greatly improve the sound quality.
Maybe it was coincidence but vinyl began its resurgence at around the same time as recordings started this trend.
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But one of the issues too when people say well i have this on cd and i have it on vinyl and the vinyl just sounds so much better it may not be an apples to apples comparison because the flip.
The table below lists the sampling rate and the accuracy for cd recordings and the maximum sampling rate and accuracy for dvd recordings.
Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music.
There are several reasons at least one of them valid.
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.
