Vinyl Higher Quality Than Cd

But the majority of today s new and re issued vinyl albums around 80 or more several experts estimate start from digital files even lower quality cds.

Vinyl higher quality than cd.

Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues. Still as artists and labels hop on the vinyl trend some new vinyl releases may be mastered from cd quality audio not the high resolution formats audiophiles and folks like neil young adore. Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy. Playback and inconsistencies though cd s sample rate is high and we re all well aware how good they sound the idea of its being converted once into digital and then back to analogue losing and approximating information seems to infer it will.

Digital music as source for vinyl. Vinyl is back no doubt about it. Writing for the wall street journal neil shah reported in his article why vinyl s boom is over that. Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music.

Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level. The table below lists the sampling rate and the accuracy for cd recordings and the maximum sampling rate and accuracy for dvd recordings. Old lps were cut from analog tapes that s why they sound so high quality.