[joejm65]

I think music on vinyl sounds better than digital music. I’m not being nostalgic here. A good record played on a good stereo sounds...fuller? Don’t know the right word. Anyway...

[La Lydia]

Maybe you need to get some new speakers?

[Little Pig]

Because vinyl was an analog recording, and therefore got more of the harmonics for the music. CD deliberately “clips” frequencies above ~20,000Hz or below ~50Hz, on the assumption that most people can’t hear them anyway, and it therefore saves on the size of each track.

[Syntyr]

To use the popular descriptor - vinyl has a bigger and fuller “Sound Stage”. It doesn’t clip the highs and lows that digital can.

That said the new CD’s are remasterd so you may get more info from the new CD’s as opposed to the old vinyl. That and vinyl degrades every time you play it.

[Slapshot68]

“I think music on vinyl sounds better than digital music. I’m not being nostalgic here. A good record played on a good stereo sounds...fuller? Don’t know the right word. Anyway...”

Totally agree, but it’s difficult getting the needle to stay on the record in the car. ;)

[agooga]

My wife and I have a collection of about a thousand vinyl records, some very rare and unreleased on CD, and some that we just never bought on CD for whatever reason— mainly $$$.

I unearthed her turntable a month ago and bought a new cartridge for it, invested about $50 in a record cleaning kit and a can of Gruv-Glide and started ripping the albums to Mp3.

Personally, I cannot detect an obvious improvement in quality over the CD versions, but they DO sound different. They sound like they did when I sat in my room and played them over and over again until the early hours of the morning. For that reason, and a few others, they have value. A CD is a CD— they all sound the same. These are OUR records.

[discostu]

Vinyl has more low end; CD’s, especially the first decade or so before they started correcting the mix, tend to have a slightly tinny sound. Also the ritual of the LP is much more satisfying.

[libh8er]

I think music on vinyl sounds better than digital music.

There is some truth to that, but only when the original master is of high quality and the vinyl new and scratch free. Records are analog and therefore a more faithful reproduction of the original sound, which (red book) CD at 44.1 khz sampling can only approximate.

However if you listen to DVD-Audio or SACD, you will never listen to anything else. DVD-A/SACD is to CD/Vinyl what 1080P HD is to standard def video.

[mysterio]

I think music on vinyl sounds better than digital music. I’m not being nostalgic here. A good record played on a good stereo sounds...fuller? Don’t know the right word. Anyway...

I agree totally. Rolling Stone had a blurb on the new Beatles mixes, and they repeated their 1987 review that the CD versions were shriller than the vinyl. This time around, they fixed it, apparently.

Here's what your ears have already told you when it comes to digital vs analog :



The flipside, though, is that when there's silence on a digital recording, you get silence. On analog, there are often pops from dust, scratches, etc.

But I still dig the vinyl format.

[Spunky]

"I think music on vinyl sounds better than digital music."

I agree with you. Back in the 60's we bought an RCA surround sound player and you could hear every little sound bouncing around the room like it was an orchestra surrounding you.

[duckman]

“A good record played on a good stereo sounds...fuller?”
Agree. A high end mag cartridge with a high end vacuum tube amp is superior.IMO. I remember doing “A/B”,s at my local Crazy Eddies with my own albums, noticing a big difference.

[Lx]

You are correct. Vinyl sounds alive and breathes unlike CD’s that sound too sterile.

I’ve got a great turntable and still collect vinyl. In fact, of my entire system, the newest part is the turntable from maybe 1979 and the latest cartridge though. The amps and preamps are from the 50’s. Long live tubes and vinyl.