Vinyl versus CD

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Originally posted by picanin
Spam go compare an vinyl copy of an album playing against a DDD one and you will hear - unless tonedeaf - that the DDD copy sounds cold, flat and lifeless. CD's inferior sound quality in comparison to vinyl has been proven time and time again in listening tests using real ears! Scientific measurement will never be a good marker of sound quality. However with the new formats of SACD and DVD-A the sound quality is comparable with vinyl unlike CD. Over the next five years these formats will become standard and CD as we know it will die out.

Spam do yourself a favour and go into a hi-fi shop with a cheap £200 turntable and compare it to a decent Linn, Rega, Pro-jekt or Roksan and you will hear the difference in quality that a good turntable, arm and cartridge make. The amount of information that is retrieved from the grooves is amazing.

Picanin, technically there can be no comparison....purely from the different techniques used. A stylus is an electro mechanical device, therein lies its downfall, A good DDD CD will knock the spots off a vinyl reproduction particularly after a year or two's worth of playing.
Just be practical about it.....with CD's these days you get superb sound quality without having to spend a fortune on equipment, you get the low end frequency response without needing tons of power, and clarity is second to none....as I said elsewhere listen to something like Claptons Layla unplugged on DDD and then go listen to it on vinyl.......tthere is no comparison, the clarity of the CD is outstanding. I fail to see how you can say the sound of a CD is "cold" the frequency range is equal to the best turntables around (at a fraction of the cost) you do not have any of the inherent noise that a turntable generates, minor disc imperfections do not affect the record quality, CD's are immune to dust and minor scratchings.....lets face it, it if were an inferior quality then there would be no way the investment would have been made in the technology.