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CDs have better fidelity than vinyl. Vinyl sounds more like vinyl than CDs do, until a specific piece of vinyl is reduced to a shambles by time. People who re
by msla 7y ago
CDs have better fidelity than vinyl.
Vinyl sounds more like vinyl than CDs do, until a specific piece of vinyl is reduced to a shambles by time.
People who really like vinyl have a bad habit of equivocating between the above two statements, using "better" to mean either "greater fidelity" (which is wrong) or "sounds more like vinyl" (which is a tautology) without signalling which meaning they mean.
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- dagw 7y agoThe other aspect is that, especially for older music (say anything recording over 30 years old), the CD master is often different than the Vinyl master. In some cases this difference in mastering can lead to people preferring the vinyl over the CD and claiming vinyl "sounds better", when in fact all it is is they prefer the way the vinyl was mastered.
- masklinn 7y agoIIRC that was one of the huge consequences of the loudness wars: you can't really master loud vynils, so they've avoided clipped mastering.
- amaranth 7y agoThe vinyl almost always has better mastering. CDs and digital audio in general still get mastered for the loudness war while vinyls are often mastered to have higher dynamic range. That'll make the CD sound better for radio or club play but the vinyl will sound better when you're listening at home.