Why Vinyl Records Sound Better

Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made.

Why vinyl records sound better.

A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. Vinyl is back no doubt about it. By clint holley well made music it has become clear in the past five years that consumers love vinyl records. Records aren t exactly known for their portability for example.

That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war with the rise of digital music cds included it s possible to make a track sound louder than it naturally should.

About 2 percent in 2014. Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues. Is the sound on vinyl records better than on cds or dvds. 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.

Best turntables under 300. Comparison of a raw analog audio signal to the cd audio and dvd audio output. However that s not to say there aren t advantages to digital music. Take a look at the graph below.

Vinyl is one of the best ways to listen to music. There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats. In brief an engineer such as gonsalves receives mixed recordings from the studio or even a band s laptop. Music sounds better played on a good turntable than it does from files or cds.

The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality. 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. Ask them why and they all say the sound comes first and i agree.