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Originally Posted by roachboy
the sound is much better on vinyl--cd sound is highly compressed
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I think you are confusing cd's with mp3's.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
you hear it in the relative one-dimensional character of the low end and the lack of warmth overall.
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I respectfully disagree.
this was certainly true in the infancy of digital music, when analog recordings were first being digitized. the initial digital mastering of many great records suffered in that respect (a prime example being the Led Zeppelin catalog,which was dreadful upon first cd release, but was later remastered by Jimmy Page himself and suffers no loss of fidelity in comparison with vinyl.) and in today's recording industry, most (all?) music is digitally recorded by highly skilled professionals. the initial short-comings of digital music have long since been overcome.
and, in fact, there are many great records that sound better now, on CD, than they ever did on vinyl...with detail heretofore unheard able to be brought out, due to the precision that digital mastering can bring.
let's face it, other than rap DJ's who use vinyl for scratching, vinyl is nearly as dead as 8 tracks.