Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital


I have not bought a vinyl record since CDs came out, but have been exposed to numerous claims that vinyl is better.  I suspect jazz may be best placed to deliver on these claims, so I am looking for your recommendations.

I must confess that I do not like trad jazz much.  Also I was about to fork out A$145 for Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" but bought the CD for A$12 to see what the music was like.  I have kept the change!

I love the jazz in the movie Babylon, which features local Oz girl Margo Robbie (the film, not the jazz).

So what should I buy?

richardbrand

Showing 2 responses by jsalerno277

+1 @ghdprentice Eloquent and accurate as always.  I would only add that I find some very early digital masters suffer compared to vinyl.  To generalize, I find these are often albums where the original analog master was not well engineered and the problems exacerbated by early digital mastering techniques.  As you do, I find streaming recent  “digital remasters”  equivalent, if not better IMHO than vinyl.  Both vinyl and digital show differences in SQ between remasters, reflecting the recording engineers intent during remastering.  Streaming gives you the ability to explore all of the remasters published on the service and choose the one you most prefer with no monetary investment other than the service charge as your point out.  Most times these differences are subtle, but sometimes not.  Sometimes I even find the original low-resolution digital remaster better than the HD remaster.   It depends upon the recording engineer’s intent and your personal preference.

 

 

 

@ghdprentice Yes. When I put that that thought to type I was specifically thinking early DG digital remasters of some of the great performances they recorded in analog that, in analog suffered from shrill shrill strings and sibilance, exacerbated to the unlistenable in their poor digital remasters.  In general, DG has consistently archived some of the best performances but was inconsistent in engineering the best SQ.  Some recordings have phenomenal SQ.  Some suffer in both analog and digital with “DG shrill and sibilance”.   When they get both the performance and engineering right,  it’s pure bliss.  When not, the DG love affair is over.