Vinyl is a lossless format.
Why do vinyl sound better.
That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings.
The pressings are made straight from the masters and contain all of the detail the artist intended.
There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often.
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.
Why vinyl sounds better than cd or not according to rolling stone magazine sales of vinyl albums continue to grow setting a new record in 2010.
About 2 percent in 2014.
There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.
For comparison listening to vinyl as opposed to digital is like viewing the mona lisa with your own eyes rather than looking at a picture of it on a smartphone.
Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality.
Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war with the rise of digital music cds included it s possible to make a track sound louder than it naturally should.
It s for this reason that vinyl sounds better than digital.