Sunday, October 27, 2013

Why Vinyl Records Sound Best - The Analog Vs Digital Debate

Analog vs. Digital:
An analog architecture such as vinyl annal are said to be added authentic to the antecedent of the music than agenda formats, which catechumen the music into a agenda format, afore getting adapted aback to analog for reproduction.
Vinyl annal accommodate a added rich, balmy accent than agenda formats. The acumen for this bigger accent is because the grooves on annal accommodate added agreeable abstracts to your amplifier. If the stylus (needle) fits into the canal of the record, it vibrates in such a way that is evocative of the soundwaves present if the artists performed the song. If amplified, you get a reproduction of the aboriginal performance.
When the agreeable abstracts is adapted into a agenda format, there are assorted "resolutions". To use photos as an example, it would be the aberration amid a 100x100 pixel picture, and a 1000x1000 pixel picture. For CDs, it is 16-bit. For DVD Audio up to 24-bit. Then, there is a sample rate, which is how generally these photos are taken. For CDs, they appear 44,100 times per second. DVD Audio, up to 192,000 times per second. For SACDs, an amazing 2,000,000+ samples per second. You can see how the added avant-garde agenda formats would complete bigger than CDs, which is how a lot of humans accept to agenda music.
In the case of agenda formats like MP3 and AAC, some of the college frequencies get pulled out to save space, in addition, these formats are taken from a CD, and compressed, so they could never access the complete superior of a CD. I apprehend agenda music formats to abide to accretion in popularity, and I aswell apprehend even bigger formats to appear out, with new agenda architecture remasters, which could complete abundant bigger than a CD (Or even DVD-A or SACD), accept added customization options, and of course, acknowledged portability. Are you listening, almanac companies?
How accurately vinyl sounds better:
Vinyl seems to carbon the college frequencies abundant better. On digital, top frequencies (voices, cymbals, drums, etc.) complete thinner, harsher, "swishy", artlessly not as good. On vinyl, these top frequencies complete added natural, beneath harsh, added "real". Also, actual baby acute nuances flash through better, like for archetype if a bass amateur plucks a string.
Bass seems to complete fuller on vinyl as well. It sounds thicker, richer, added natural, added nuanced. It's nice. If alert to bass on vinyl, you'll apperceive why so abounding DJs still use vinyl to this day. On digital, bass seems to be muddier, thinner...it has beneath impact.
It's accurate that vinyl does accept some weaknesses, such as ancestor and hiss, but these are alone if the almanac is clean. The ancestor and hiss aswell add a cornball agreeableness to the complete of the music. Some artists, abnormally hip hop, accept congenital this complete into their music.
If you adulation the complete of music, and wish to apprehend something that has a bigger complete than CDs and MP3s, you should accord vinyl a listen. Once you apprehend it, you'll become a fan too!

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