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on 14-09-2020 07:25 AM
@davidc4430 wrote:
Vinyl sales continue to grow, but does music sound better on a record or digital streaming?
give me a break, go back to vinyl, not this little black duck
i remenber vinyl only too well
needing to buy a new copy because we had a hot day or it developed a skip
not being able to replace a record because 'its out of print'
nope, replaced everything and then some with CDs, still have em stored away.
transferred them all onto hard drive, made back ups.
play perfect every time, never wear out
still buy the odd CD, but not often
Vinyl sounds better than digital but you have to spend more to get that sound. Vinyl like magnetic tape being analogue will contain a capture of the sound recorded on it. Digital like CD and download have a numerical representation of the music. Some purists will say that with digital it misses parts of the music. I guess you'd have to have a trained ear for that. Digital is able to capture a broader dynamic range than vinyl so there's some compression involved there. So it wins there but it doesn't have the detail.
Anyway adherents to both will argue their point until the other one shuts up. At the end of the day which will be around in 500 years? That Lionel Ritchie or Bonnie Raitt album if dug up will still be playable if stored right. Possibly some of the new film that is used to store analogue and other data may survive. The CD will have oxidised and the digital data will have become corrupted over time by whatever outside influences are about.
