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Is vinyl rip better than cd.
It s an age old question does vinyl sound better than cd.
High resolution audio offers both quality and convenience.
The only thing you have to do with a cd is.
The vinyl rip is better than redbook cd but the sacd is the best recording i have.
The bass is just amazing on the sacd.
But the real downside of the cd is its lack of portability.
The title says it all.
There are many questions that can be answered definitively on the differences between cds and vinyl but if what you seek is proof that one sounds better than the other you might be quite disappointed.
But never has there been more hipster hype than with the resurgence of vinyl records.
1 point 4 years ago.
And having to search through an extensive cd collection to find the song you want to listen to can be frustrating.
And even then i can t remember any vinyl rip sounding better than a cd.
Prince is a pretty good example of someone whose digital catalog is a.
I ve had situations where i ve preferred the vinyl rip of course.
But sometimes i ll go through the initial recording and the lossy cd copy i have is noticably better sounding to the point where i ve actually deleted the ripped recording.
If there s one downside to the cd medium it s this.
The first is the idea that double blind testing is the ultimate way of detecting differences in audio reproduction.
2 points 4 years ago.
The second is being able to recognize differences between cd quality and higher resolutions.
I d add lossy downloads to that as well sometimes.
I can actually here the bass guitar being played without being muddled by the percussion.
Let s take them one at a time.
There s no question that cds sound much better than mp3s.
Some masters have never been released or replicated properly in the digital realm.
Vinyl is back no doubt about it.
There are two issues here.
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About 2 percent in 2014.