I must be old


Listening tonight to Heavy Weather on first vinyl then CD through a Sonica DAC it occurs to me that there are no pops, the stage separation is larger, the dynamics are larger and the instruments are better defined. My record album is not brand new. It has surface noise. My CD does not. I want to love my vinyl but unless I buy perfect new LPs I cannot tolerate the surface noise or lack of frequency limitations for the sake of euphonic sound. Am I crazy?  Misinformed?  Stupid?  I have been an audiophile for 50 years. 
tgrisham

Showing 1 response by mastering92

Your impressions are valid. There is nothing wrong with your hearing from what I can tell.

The clicks or pops you hear are fairly common with vinyl records.
CDs don’t have this problem.

A CD is 100% bit for bit accurate data being read by a process called land and pit (grooves made by a laser) on the CD to be read as 0s and 1s.

Happy listening. Digital audio (CDs and DSD) are the best if you want an accurate rendition of the actual recording. (what was achieved in the studio with said track)