Collecting Cds Vs Vinyl

Maybe it doesn t sound quite as full as a vinyl but on the other hand you don t have any noise.

Collecting cds vs vinyl.

So i will keep on with both cds and vinyl. Well vinyl is more of a pain in the rear end to take care of and you generally don t get more than 25 minutes per side whereas a cd you can get up to 75 minutes and digital downloads well more and less if you know what i. Half my buyings are cds. Since cds rely on sampling an original analog signal being recorded they do have some frequency limitations.

The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle. I want to start collecting physical copies of my favorite albums and i can t decide between cds or vinyl. The latter is especially true of vinyl produced in the 90s through the early 00s when vinyl sales were at their lowest and cds completely dominated the market. This article hopes to outline a few points which can help you along in your crate digging adventures.

On the other hand there. Which do you prefer and why. Vinyl pressings for major label. While vinyl records in theory directly encode a smooth audio wave cds sample that.

However as music reaches the marketplace vinyl nearly always wins out over cds especially when played through the expensive equipment favored by vinylphiles. Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history. 0 comments share save hide report 100 upvoted log in or sign up to leave a comment log in. Not so fragile and you don t have to turn it every 20 minutes.

Reissues is a recurrent topic among vinyl junkies. There are many albums where the vinyl sounds better than the cd issue or no cd has ever been issued or the cd is just taken from the vinyl anyway obviously in those cases the vinyl is the way to go. Reply londonjazzcollector on may 12 2015 at 20 36 said.