First of all I would suggest a blind listening, switching from CD to Vinyl. Humans are full or bias, what you hear may be because it is what you want to hear. For example when listeners listened to music with various speaker cables, they always said the music played thru thicker speaker cables sounded better than thru lamp cord. However, that was only when they saw that it was thicker cable. When lamp cord was disguised as a thick cable they thought the disguised lamp cord sounded better than the normal lamp cord. Also blind tests showed that most people could not tell the difference between music played over You Tube compared to the same music played from a CD. To me I can always hear the difference between vinyl and digital because digital has none of the dust pops or crackle in quiet sections of the music.
Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital?
It’s obvious right? They sound different, and I’m sure they measure differently. Well we know the dynamic range of cd’s is larger than vinyl.
But do we have an agreed description or agreed measurements of the differences between vinyl and digital?
I know this is a hot topic so I am asking not for trouble but for well reasoned and detailed replies, if possible. And courtesy among us. Please.
I’ve always wondered why vinyl sounds more open, airy and transparent in the mid range. And of cd’s and most digital sounds quieter and yet lifeless than compared with vinyl. YMMV of course, I am looking for the reasons, and appreciation of one another’s experience.