The debate will carry on but fans of vinyl music are literally dying out.
Why dc better vinyl.
In brief an engineer such as gonsalves receives mixed recordings from the studio or even a band s laptop.
Vinyl purists will always oppose this and point out that many of the world s top dj s have returned to vinyl.
From ac dc and black sabbath to queen and the rolling stones we ve selected the best classic rock vinyl you should have in your collection shares when it comes to listening to classic rock there really is no better platform than a solid piece of vinyl especially when you get to spin them on one of the world s best turntables.
And of course records have that undeniable nostalgia that so aptly captures either childhood memories or just a simpler or arguably better time in music history.
Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made.
Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war.
Because cds use laser light and not physical contact they don t degrade in the same way.
With the rise of digital music cds included it s possible to make a track sound louder than it naturally should.
If a song is recorded on tape its conversion to vinyl better preserves the original sound of the song.
The first layer is a clear record with no music the second is the picture layer and the third is a clear plastic sheet that contains the grooves.
It wasn t long before vinyl recordings of the same content often had better sound quality at normal listening volumes simply because they had higher dynamic range.
Digital got its act together but not until the death of the cd.
Audiophiles claim that analog playback sounds better even though this is scientifically untrue.
Maybe it was coincidence but vinyl began its resurgence at around the same time as recordings started this trend.
Digital format has so many advantages to its vinyl counterpart.
According to science a cd and a vinyl record being pulled from the same original material are.
Vinyls are analogue cds are digital.
The needle on the vinyl degrades it over time which dulls sibilances and rounds percussive sounds leading to a warmer sound.
There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.
The dynamics and quieter moments are not lost in the compression process.