Music on Vinyl, compared to music on CD and other digital sources

Recently i bought myself a few vinyls and a record player, and im surprised, the sound quality is a lot better, and the music has got a tonal warmth to it, compared to a cd, which seems to be sharper in sound, but also not got as much tonal characteristics to it

I am now a vinyl fan

Anyone else enjoy music from vinyls?

Also i read somewhere that when music is recorded onto vinyls, its analogue and contain all frequencies, so no quality is lost, where as on a CD, not all the frequencies are recorded, so there is quality loss.

This probably explains why a lot of old school bands still release stuff on vinyls as well like Iron Maiden.

antiarte said:

Vinyls is the way to go! They're a bit more expensive sometimes, but most of the times you find them cheaper than CD's.
Cd's basically sound "shiner", kinda like whiny, I guess. I don't know. You have to listen to both to see the difference.

I like a belt drive turntablefor listening, and direct drive for when I DJ and/or sample.

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Yea man! I know what u mean, i was listening to them since like a couple of months back and notice the difference. Seems like you know some stuff...

What are the main differences between beltdrive and direct drive?

SlimShadyJB said:

What? People STILL use record players? Come on..those are so old...its 2006 now, not 1906. Get with the times, people.

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Vinyls were actually widely used between 1880 - 1991 (Until Cd's became mass produced) The cd was invented in 1983

Records have a much better sound quality if the record is in good condition.

Vinyls are regularly released, DJ's use vinyls quite a bit, in clubs too.

Shows how much u know...

SlimShadyJB said:

What? People STILL use record players? Come on..those are so old...its 2006 now, not 1906. Get with the times, people.

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antiarte said:

Well, purists prefer belt drive because the motor doesn't affect the sound. But their startup speed is slow, which is not good for DJ'ing. Direct drive is a motor right underneath the platter and might affect the quality of the sound.

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How often should i change the needle thing, it's like fixed to a cartridgy type thing, i got my record player off ebay for $18 australian dollars, so as u can guess its not that great, but also not that bad surprisingly.


I got a 1958 Ritchie Valens LP, and that thing is priceless to me, I do not want it damaged, when i listen to the music from that and the songs off my computer, i just immediately hate the sound from my computer. Tonal qualities are better on vinyl would be an understatement.

SlimShadyJB said:

What? People STILL use record players? Come on..those are so old...its 2006 now, not 1906. Get with the times, people.

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lol why didnt i realize this... the bling... G-Unit on the signature.

Bass...thats what you hip hop guys like right? Then you havent heard bass yet if you dont listen to vinyls.


Bass frequency reproduction is x 5 better on vinyl playback (assuming your speakers are good and have wide enough cones to handle proper bass frequency playback)

SlimShadyJB said:

Yeah sure,then how come when I go to Best Buy I don't see anyone selling vinyals record or whatever u call them?? lol..I don't have a problem with them, I just don't know why anyone would bother with a huge disk-playing machine thing when we have more convenient smaller CD's and I-Pods now...it just sort of surprised me that ppl still use those old things...

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I dont know what best buy is, but by the sounds of it sounds like it caters to the majority, and the majority buy cd's and ipod's, because either they have no idea of the quality of vinyl record playback and like you said yourself, they are big !!! They do take up quite a bit of space, but then again, you just need 1 record player, and vinyls are actually thinner than cd cases, so you can actually store a heck of a lot of vinyls if you got a cupboard.

It reminds me of the argument for and against old valve equipment, it's known as valves in england and tubes in america. They don't tend to use such equipment as often now due to the large transformer it requires, because of the large voltage it pulls, and also valves have to replaced often, and also they heat up a lot.

But Valve vs transistor based audio playback, valve wins. Most of the expensive and high end guitar amplifiers use valve technology, why? because the sound differences are clear, valve produces a very melodic and warm tone, where as solid state(transistor) based amplifiers produce a colder and less melodic tone.

When i plugin music sometimes to playback on my guitar amplifier, the sound is soooo much better compared to my stereo downstairs. even though it was not intended for music playback but rather just guitar.

SlimShadyJB said:

Yeah sure,then how come when I go to Best Buy I don't see anyone selling vinyals record or whatever u call them?? lol..I don't have a problem with them, I just don't know why anyone would bother with a huge disk-playing machine thing when we have more convenient smaller CD's and I-Pods now...it just sort of surprised me that ppl still use those old things...

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HopeWasBornFromSuffering said:

I personally like cds. Vynls, or whatever you call it, is really old. My parents have one, and its just collecting dust in our attic.

-Hope

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Lol, have u heard a vinyl? Your parents have only one vinyl?

Just cause it is old doesn't mean it's bad. The oldest vinyl i have is about 48 years old, it does have some kind of static to it, but that's because the previous owner didn't care for it too well.