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post #1 of 10
12/31/10 at 4:34am
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A couple of years ago I started to collect vinyls and I've mostly bought older releases.

Recently I've been loiking at some albums that only excist on CD. That got me thinking about how todays music is recorded. Since a convertion from analog to digital or the otherway probably decreases the quality the. Therefor shouldn't the best thing be to buy the CD for the digital recorded albums and vinyl for analog recorded albums? (not shure if recorded is the right word but I thing you get my point).

 

If that's true how do you tell if it was made analog or digital and are all recent releases digital?

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post #2 of 10
12/31/10 at 4:44am

As long as it's not a direct rip from the CD master, vinyl sounds better regardless of whether the recording and mastering is digital or analog. At least going by my own ears.

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post #3 of 10
12/31/10 at 4:47am

Well its good to see that some (very few indeed) modern artists have started releasing albums in vinyl. For example Taylor Swift's Speak now is available in vinyl. Hope that trend continues and if it does i'll be getting a turnable.
 

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Originally Posted by Gazza View Post

As long as it's not a direct rip from the CD master, vinyl sounds better regardless of whether the recording and mastering is digital or analog. At least going by my own ears.

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post #4 of 10
12/31/10 at 10:12am
Formats don't matter. Both LPs and CDs are capable of excellent sound. It all depends on the mastering. The only way to find out which version sounds best is to ask someone who's heard both and compared them.
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post #5 of 10
1/1/11 at 1:44am
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I still feel that there should be a different. Maybe it's not noticeable.

Which genres do you think doesn't work with vinyl, if any?
I'm looking for Crystal Castles second album and not sure if I should get the vinyl or CD.

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post #6 of 10
1/1/11 at 3:49am

Well, at least 25% - 35% of my vinyl collection are albums that I also own on CD and unless they are mastered from the CD (Dillinger Escape Plan's Miss Machine is a good example) the records sound better.

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post #7 of 10
1/1/11 at 11:35am

A format doesn't have a sound. Sound quality depends on engineering. Good engineering can make any high fidelity format sound great. There are good cds and bad cds and good lps and bad lps. It all depends.

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post #8 of 10
1/2/11 at 5:06pm
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A format doesn't have a sound. Sound quality depends on engineering. Good engineering can make any high fidelity format sound great. There are good cds and bad cds and good lps and bad lps. It all depends.



What he said!

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post #9 of 10
1/2/11 at 6:55pm
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Originally Posted by bigshot View Post

A format doesn't have a sound. Sound quality depends on engineering. Good engineering can make any high fidelity format sound great. There are good cds and bad cds and good lps and bad lps. It all depends.

 

CDs are theoretically capable of better sound, but I find that most times if a CD sounds awful (i.e. compression), the vinyl release sounds better. But yes, it all depends. I have albums that sound excellent on CD, and if I listened to the vinyl, I'd probably stick with the CD release.

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post #10 of 10
1/2/11 at 8:03pm

I have plenty of records that are mastered the same as the Cd and really sound worse than the Cd due to surface and other noise. But I have new and old records that are mastered far better than the Cd and are worth every penny. 

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