Why Vinyl Sounds Better

By clint holley well made music.

Why vinyl sounds better.

Why vinyl sounds better than cd or not according to rolling stone magazine sales of vinyl albums continue to grow setting a new record in 2010. 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. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. Most of the music is broadcast in some lossy format where details are missed and the overall quality is reduced.

Is the sound on vinyl records better than on cds or dvds. Comparison of a raw analog audio signal to the cd audio and dvd audio output. Best turntables under 300. Ask them why and they all say the sound comes first and i agree.

Music sounds better played on a good turntable than it does from files or cds. There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often. Vinyl can still push music to the limits of its dynamic range 55 70db but it often shies away from doing so in order to maintain sound quality. The artwork the lyrics and personal interaction are all reasons that this once dead format has catapulted back into the mainstream.

Vinyl is a lossless format. It happens because audio files get compressed to make them small enough to store thousands of them on the phone and to stream online. Vinyl can struggle with highs and lows. The pressings are made straight from the masters and contain all of the detail the artist intended.

Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. Take a look at the graph below. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. Vinyl sounds better than mp3s ever could.

It s for this reason that vinyl sounds better than digital. High pitched frequencies drum cymbals hi hats and sibilance think s sounds can cause the ugly crackle of distortion while deep bass panned between.