Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
by JohnGB on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:15PM
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The quality isn't necessarily worse. Vinyl is analogue, and so good quality vinyl has a different sound to the same audio played from a CD. That isn't to say that all vinyl is better, just that the best vinyl is better than the best CD recordings.
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Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
by iamnotacrook on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:29PM
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No it's not. If there's a digital recording of a band and you can either listen to that exact set of bits encoded losslessly, for example from a flac file from a cheap usb key, Vs whatever the hell happens when you convert those bits into analogue and press them into some plastic with demonstrably worse track separation, distortion, and which physically degrades during each play even in optimal circumstances and where slightly moving the little box doing the playback can cause permanent damage to the vinyl then clearly the choice isn't based on sound quality.
Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
by efdee on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:42PM
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It depends what the digital recording is mastered for, really.
Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
by iamnotacrook on Sunday September 08, 2019 @04:00PM
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I dunno about that...I've recorded some of my acoustic guitar playing, and some electronic pieces. Some mastering exists which would make the recordings sound better than a 100% unaltered digital playback?
Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
by mrob on Sunday September 08, 2019 @04:56PM
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If you're playing in a noisy environment like a car then some dynamic range compression will make it sound better.
Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
by lawnchair_larry on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:27PM
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Worse is a subjective assessment, but it is necessarily lower fidelity.