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Assuming equivalent quality of CD playback equipment and LP playback equipment, LPs provide superior sound quality. LPs are analog, so what reaches your ears is
by Spearchucker 9y ago
Assuming equivalent quality of CD playback equipment and LP playback equipment, LPs provide superior sound quality. LPs are analog, so what reaches your ears is undiluted sound. CDs are digital, so there are gaps in the sound, and there's the analog audio conversion that must happen to record to a digital/CD format, and digital audio conversion back to analog that must happen to hear the sound from a speaker. Both conversions reduce fidelity.
As ever this difference can be impossible to detect if the equipment and environment aren't of a sufficient fidelity/quality.
- olau 9y agoTry watching this video (hope I found the right one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM I think you're right that recording equipment has a long way to go, though; regardless of format I think people can relatively easily distinguish real acoustical instruments from recordings.
- noisem4ker 9y ago>digital, so there are gaps in the sound What kind of gaps? There are no gaps. Sampled signals perfectly represent the original wave up to half the sampling frequency. Analog systems are inevitably limited in their frequency response as well, so, given the same bandwidth, there would be no difference at all. In the real world, imperfect A/D and D/A conversions are typically still far less destructive than all the mechanical and electromagnetic sources of noise that affect analog systems. You can't consider one but not the other.