Why Does Vinyl Sound So Good

Music sounds better played on a good turntable than it does from files or cds.

Why does vinyl sound so good.

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. Ask them why and they all say the sound comes first and i agree. 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. Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made.

The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality. Best turntables under 300. You ll also hear vinyl enthusiasts discussing the warm sound they get from their record players. It s true that some digital media really don t sound very good.

Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. In brief an engineer such as gonsalves receives mixed recordings from the studio or even a band s laptop. That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings. There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.

These days many records are made using playback of a digital file so vinyl preference cannot be attributed solely to the differences in the way the sound wave is reproduced. There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often. 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. 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.