Most of the records I buy come with bandcamp codes. I can play the flac files if I want digital audio, physical media for me is about the thing itself. Often get full sized posters and patches. Shit I’ll buy a tape over the cd too
They usually have a higher bitrate than you can get from streaming. There’s not one CD I have that I immediately tell the difference in quality of I switch between streaming (or even a standard mp3 actually) and a CD. CD wins every time.
Have you ever listened to records? “Objectively worse audio quality” is not what I’d call the experience. In fact I doubt you’d be able to tell the difference.
Absolutely you would for the reasons I mentioned. Vinyl is typically made from digital and the first step of mastering is altering it to remove sibilance, loudness and other things that either waste space, cause distortion or cause the needle to jump. It’s already lossy and then as it is printed and played, more loss and distortion happens. Even playing the record causes it to wear and for dust to accumulate. While it is completely possible for a badly mastered CD to sound worse than a well mastered LP, the reality is if they are from the same master and other biases are eliminated (i.e. A/B testing) then the CD is going to win out since it has a higher dynamic range and frequency.
Hipsters paying 2-3x as much for a vinyl LP which objectively has worse audio quality than a CD.
Most of the records I buy come with bandcamp codes. I can play the flac files if I want digital audio, physical media for me is about the thing itself. Often get full sized posters and patches. Shit I’ll buy a tape over the cd too
Most CDs pressed after the mid-90’s are audiological garbage not worth paying for.
If the waveform looks like this, I ain’t buying it:
They usually have a higher bitrate than you can get from streaming. There’s not one CD I have that I immediately tell the difference in quality of I switch between streaming (or even a standard mp3 actually) and a CD. CD wins every time.
So you have a crap master. Compare the same master between compact disc and vinyl when making your judgments.
alot of people dont work with audio, but i actually have, you may be downvoted, but you are correct.
Have you ever listened to records? “Objectively worse audio quality” is not what I’d call the experience. In fact I doubt you’d be able to tell the difference.
Absolutely you would for the reasons I mentioned. Vinyl is typically made from digital and the first step of mastering is altering it to remove sibilance, loudness and other things that either waste space, cause distortion or cause the needle to jump. It’s already lossy and then as it is printed and played, more loss and distortion happens. Even playing the record causes it to wear and for dust to accumulate. While it is completely possible for a badly mastered CD to sound worse than a well mastered LP, the reality is if they are from the same master and other biases are eliminated (i.e. A/B testing) then the CD is going to win out since it has a higher dynamic range and frequency.
“Pop… Crack… Pop…”
Yeah, that doesn’t happen as much you’d think. With old and busted records, yes. New stuff. Not even close.
They’re absolutely objectively worse from an audio stand point.
I agree that they give you a different listening experience, which is subjective.