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.
Beatles’ records in Mono are worth more.
You have any objective evidence you can hear above 20k Hz?
Which is an absolutely valid assumption.
Interesting.
So even if most people do not noticeably “hear” the higher and lower frequncies that were recorded, those parts of the music are getting sent out on vinyl but not on CDs. I wonder if double-blinded audience studies would reveal diffferent impressions of the full band vs. clipped band versions of the same songs? Theoretically and if all else where equal, the broader band version might leave a slightly different impression on listeners than the clipped version??
“CD deliberately “clips” frequencies above ~20,000Hz or below ~50Hz, on the assumption that most people can’t hear them anyway,”
I’d be thrilled to find you can hear those frequencies. You’d be the first human to be able to.
CDs deliberately clip below 50Hz?
Got a link?
Can you hear the difference between Monster Cable premium speaker wire and zip cord?
Do you really believe that dragging a rock across some plastic makes a more faithful reproduction of a sound wave than a numeric digital representation? Heck, Left/Right channel separation in CDs are perfect, where LPs have up to 20% crosstalk.
I appreciate fine music as much as the next guy, but as an Engineer I can see with my own eyes on an oscilloscope how accurately, or inaccurately, sound is reproduced via an LP and via a CD.