Frequency Range Vinyl Vs Cd

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Frequency range vinyl vs cd.

Sound can be recorded and stored and played using either digital or analog techniques. Typically you ll know if you have a cd4 record. Is this growth because as some respected sources breathlessly state i m looking at you wired magazine vinyl sounds better than digital media. Both techniques introduce errors and distortions in the sound and these methods can be systematically compared.

Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues. The dynamic range of vinyl when evaluated as the ratio of a peak sinusoidal amplitude to the peak noise density at that sine wave frequency is somewhere around 80 db. There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often. Vinyl has greater resolution than cd because its dynamic range is higher than for cd at the most audible frequencies.

Musicians and listeners have argued over the superiority of digital versus analog sound recordings. Vinyl is back no doubt about it. 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. So what happens if you take a vinyl record that was mastered on all digital equipment in.

That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings. The ultra high frequencies on a cd4 record can only be read by specialised stylus profiles eg. The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl. Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.

Please see my follow up video. Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history.