Cd S Vs Vinyl

While cd album sales dropped 80 percent after a 2001 peak lp sales hit 9 2 million in the u s up nearly 800 percent.

Cd s vs vinyl.

Cds are not affected by surface noise because they use light beams to read the musical data which ignore any foreign substance on the disc. However some started to take it a little too far and it wound up being known as the. Production studios for large entertainment companies made the switch to digital and realized that the new format afforded new ways to edit music. Playback and inconsistencies though cd s sample rate is high and we re all well aware how good they sound the idea of its being converted once into digital and then back to analogue losing and approximating information seems to infer it will always be inferior to vinyl.

Moreover vinyl s just more fun as a format than mp3s or cds. The rest of it dates back to sometime in the 1990s when the cd all but killed off vinyl in the first place. Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history. The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle.

There s something viscerally satisfying about dropping the needle and physically spinning the record back to rewind. Vinyl s resurgence seemed to be hastening the death of the cd. Why vinyl sounds better than cd or not according to rolling stone magazine sales of vinyl albums continue to grow setting a new record in 2010. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.

Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy. Original sound is analog by definition. And in a world. Besides that vinyl records have an underlying hiss.

Besides that vinyl records have an underlying hiss generated by the needle moving over the surface. Take a look at the graph below.