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Originally Posted by Katsunami
And there you have it: one of the reasons why people sometimes think vinyl sounds better than CD's.
Is vinyl superior to CD? No. If they are both mastered the best as can be achieved on each medium, the CD is *much* superior. However, it is very easy to greatily **** up a CD or digital file (see the crap DR of even the HDTracks file), while it is very hard to crap out vinyl in the same way. At some point, you can't get the vinyl to compress the range more and become louder; it just distorts. Going louder just becomes physically impossible without doing damage to the record.
Also, sometimes vinyls are mastered better/more correctly and with more care than the CD to create a collector's item.
So many people who are claiming that vinyl sounds better than CD's are listening to badly mastered music. It's technically impossible for vinyl to outperform a perfectly mastered CD.
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The sample rate on a CD is 44KHz which limits the High end. A [B]Hard cutoff
OTOH The top frequencies on a Vinyl recording roll off.
When I was a
Bit younger, my hearing went a bit past 21KHz (I could hear the Horizontal Oscillator in a TV, Ultrasonic Motion Detectors). I noticed the difference on things like the Triangle chime. The brightness was gone.
To me, the modern subwoofer feels (literately) wrong. 1/10W/ch into my 1960's speakers reaches a measured (music) SPL of 96 at my desk. You do not want to be in my office at 5 Watts
