CD's or Vinyl?


Gun to your head, if you could only pick one, which would you choose.  As nostalgic and sublime as Vinyl can be I think I'd have to go with Cd's.  Just seems cleaner and more pristine to me.

And You?

 

klimt

I play both formats and they are very close sound wise 

I will say though that I find more cds with loud  brick walled mastering or very harsh loud dynamics and don’t find nearly any records with those characteristics

My point is that vinyl seems to be more consistent when it comes to listenable

recordings.   The cd era mastering was all over the map and vinyl mastering has been around much longer 

Just my take 

 

 

As we get older, this isn’t necessarily going to be a hypothetical.  I definitely prefer CDs and one advantage is that they can be easily burned to a server with no sonic compromises, which in turn saves space if health issues mandate having to move to a smaller place and can’t take our huge collections with us