But there is a downside any specks of dust or damage to the disc can be heard as noise or static.
Wav vs vinyl.
Digitalizing these records can result in the quality decline.
As usual i d have to agree completely with what mark said about vinyl vs.
But for most of the parts the wav is uncompressed and carries a large data and sound details.
This means that the waveforms from a vinyl recording can be much more accurate and that can be heard in the richness of the sound.
There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.
Listen to vinyl like music on vox.
Sonically vinyl has both.
That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings.
It sounds just as great as the producer or band intended.
We compare the sound quality of analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac on a 100k stereo setup.
The results may surprise you as they did us.
Vinyl is far more high quality.
Vinyl can still push music to the limits of its dynamic range 55 70db but it often shies away from doing so in order to maintain sound quality.
See our youtube debate.
No audio data is lost when pressing a record.
Because vinyl s restrictions do not permit the same abuse of audio levels as the cd mayo says that listeners might hear a wider dynamic range in an album mixed separately for vinyl over a compact.
Having a cd handy with your vinyl will give you an added advantage.
Check out our listening results.
In some ways it s the audio equivalent of driving a ford pilot.
Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war.
The vinyl lp is a format based on technology that hasn t evolved much over the last six decades.
