Cd V Vinyl Or Mp3

The digital music format of cds and increasingly mp3s is the dominant choice today for professionals and consumers alike.

Cd v vinyl or mp3.

Let s take a trip to a record store and i ll tell you the four reasons why 12 vinyl records are better than digital mp3. The quality of files. Original sound is analog by definition. The 2010 s has seen vinyl cds and streaming battle it out for attention.

A digital recording takes snapshots of the analog signal at a certain rate for. The maximum length of an audio cd is 79 8 minutes while an mp3 s length is much longer. The cd is just the first commercially successful digital medium. 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.

A history of music sources is a history of ever evolving technology and ever lasting love of high fidelity sound. Vinyl didn t die when jimi hendrix did. It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format. Take a look at the graph below.

Vinyl vs cd vs streaming. Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. The quality of a digital reproduction is dictated by how many of those samples of the original are made.

Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy. There are several reasons at least one of them valid. Well maybe this shouldn t be a competition between vinyl and cd but a competition between vinyl and digital. When comparing bitrate or the amount of data transferred per second high resolution audio s bitrate 9 216 kbps is nearly seven times higher than that of cds 1 411 kbps and almost 29 times higher than that of mp3s 320 kbps.

It is why mp3 with relatively few samples is so poor and hi res audio with far more is the closest we have to a studio recording. People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal. The mp3 was next but that was a huge step. Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium.

The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle.