Comments on: Is vinyl really better?

By: ivan

ivan — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:08:02 +0000

vinyl is good, you just can’t get any awesome tracks on CDs that vinyls have

By: Vault FM

Vault FM — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:54:48 +0000

does anyone else think these tunes is way too heavy i understand the style but damn

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:52:48 +0000

The dynamic range of vinyl is also much lower than the CD’s 16 bit dynamic range. CD dynamic range is 96dB and vinyl about 50dB. There’s obviously a huge difference. In my opinion the CD sound way better than vinyl. Although the low end response is more accurate on vinyl due to the digital sampling process. Other than that, vinyl loses the high fidelity benchmark.
Regards Alex

By: M Stanec

M Stanec — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:04 +0000

Hey everbody!

I didnt go thru all comments, so it might be already here.
DJing and clubscene begun with vinyl!
12″es are the roots.
I agree with cds just for people who are making their music, but are far from their release on asphalt.
I disagree with computer “djs/players”, as it suck and everybody can do it with temposync (i’m not talking about actual live performance where computere serves as an multiinstrument)

Regards Mar

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By: delphic

delphic — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:31:13 +0000

Aside from the ubiquitous vinyl v. digital debate, one also needs to consider the ego/status/pride that comes with a really kick ass vinyl collection. Digital media allows almost any DJ, producer, or music fan to acquire a vast collection of tracks. As a DJ, I am proud of my various classic white labels and hidden treasures found during epic digging sessions and hold high respect for any fellow DJ with an awe inspiring crate.

Of course, this is a VERY academic question. If you compare a modern record and CD on a 20,000 watt sound system in a modern club (where most producers want their music heard), any quality questions will be eliminated by reverb, feedback, echo, and any other distortion from room shape, size, etc.

By: Shadus

Shadus — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:11:43 +0000

A lot of the difference between vinyl and cd format is simply the loudness war. If you get a modernly produced cd and modern vinyl there is only minor “warmth” differences, but compare vinyl mastered prior to the worst effects of the loudness war and the same song remastered today and you’ll notice the quality is absolutely crap on the newer version.

By: Kid A

Kid A — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:44:09 +0000

Jason, the reason that digital can’t sound like vinyl is because of sample rates. CD has a standard sample rate of 44.1 kHz, meaning that it can record frequencies up to 22,050 Hz. This seems to work well, since even the best of human ears can hear only up to 20,000 Hz. All of the other frequencies above that are either lost in recording, or if recorded, discarded during mastering.

Vinyl isn’t the same way. All of those frequencies (pleasant even-order harmonics) are still present on the medium after mastering. Even though we can’t hear them, they interact with the frequencies we can hear, so we sense it as warmer.

Most major albums today are recorded at higher sample rates than 44.1 so that vinyl can be mastered from it, and then the CD release can be downsampled from the master.

By: Sid

Sid — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:48:05 +0000

I don’t know if vinyl is any better than CDs, but theory says that it’s more accurate in playing-back what was supposed to be recorded. CDs involve discretization of sound in the process, which costs in accuracy in playback.

If you want to add “analog circuitry warmth” to the sound, you can do so, no matter what the recording medium is, and the listener will be able to tell the difference.

I think that this whole dispute has to do with people who got used to listening to vinyl of older times and got used to “its warmth”, not because it’s vinyl, but because of the standard hardware and techniques that were used in recordings back then.
E.g. no matter how good a studio is, there is always a little reverb and a little “studio noise” to the recorded sound. Our ears are so used to it, they pick it up subconscioussly, and they can tell when it’s not there. Likewise, certain amplifiers have a distinct sound, and there are plugins nowadays which try to emulate it.
What I’m saying is that, if you’re producing exclusively on a computer, these characteristics won’t be there, unless you account for them.

To conclude, the vinyl can be made to sound like a cd, and the cd can be made to sound like vinyl. Today, it’s merely a matter of artistic taste/creativity.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:42:02 +0000

Hi,

just wondering if anyone knew if you could still put music onto vinyls, as in own mixes and such…please please get back to me! thanks