Vinyl Records Vs Digital Music

Original sound is analog by definition.

Vinyl records vs digital music. Vinyl is one of the best ways to listen to music. In fact i believe the vinyl was mastered from the digital recording since the record plays so incredibly clean and noise free. To break down what vinyl can. To many the superior sound quality and physical collection are enough to justify the investment.

For digital to truly eclipse vinyl thousands of records from the 1990s onward would need a remaster. Sonically vinyl has both strengths and weaknesses compared to digital files just as movie buffs have argued over the pros and cons of 35mm film against 4k digital. Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.

Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history the cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle. This is an interesting comparison since in the phil collins case the vinyl would appear to have an advantage being an original analog master while in the spyro gyra case the cd would seem to have the advantage since. Take a look at the graph below. Records aren t exactly known for their portability for example.