Old Recordings Sound Better On Vinyl Than New Recordings

For old stuff absolutely katz says.

Old recordings sound better on vinyl than new recordings.

You can make new lps and i ve done some for dance artists but it s a fad without much of a point. Are 180 gram vinyl records inherently better than standard pressings. Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made. The table below lists the sampling rate and the accuracy for cd recordings and the maximum sampling rate and accuracy for dvd recordings.

For digital to truly eclipse vinyl thousands of records from the 1990s onward would need a remaster. With a decent turntable analog. Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music. The center labels were removed from old records and the vinyl was then melted down and reused.

Back in the day making records was an industrial process with millions and millions of records. Vinyl is back no doubt about it. Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues. Rather than using only virgin vinyl they now began adding recycled scraps.

These audiophile grade albums demand high prices at record stores. The original was recorded digitally and never went to analog tapes. Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level. Even as a kid i always took care of my records and while there are occasional noises clicks and pops some of my old records sound better to my ears than cds.

Many new vinyl record releases tout their selling feature of being pressed on 180 gram vinyl. So no vinyl isn t better than digital music but it offers several advantages because of the fact that loudness war mixing isn t feasible on the medium. Records made today can sound better. Bits of paper were sometimes embedded in and around the edges of these wobbly new platters.

Rca records branded these as dynaflex citing innovation in vinyl production. To get rich sound you d need to put no more than 17. We explain the benefits of 180 gram vinyl to see if they are worth the premium price. About 2 percent in 2014.

In fact simply because vinyl was kept alive primarily by audiophiles we saw more audiophile records being made.