What makes tape sound better than vinyl ?


Even when making recordings from vinyl to cassette, in some aspects it sounds better, though overall in this particular example the turntable sounds better than the deck. Tape sound appears to have a flow and continuity that vinyl lacks. 
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Showing 1 response by barryaudiophile

Funny that you should ask.  Let me suggest first that In most situations vinyl disks are made from master tapes.  Assuming that entropy works for audio too, information theory tells us that the process of tape to vinyl will cost us information, there will less in the vinyl media than the tape because the Law of Entropy says so.  The traditional solution to this has been direct-to-disk recordings.

Second is that the vinyl reproduction has a high level of 'surface noise' added to the signal, I jokingly call that 'clogging the holes between the notes".  Consider that the silence between notes is important to the illusion of our stereo systems.

Audio Entropy, lot's of if. I have written about this in the audio system at 
http://www.austinaudioworks.com/design-philosphy/audio-entropy

Relax, it is all an illusion anyway.