Led Zep Reissue on vinyl

Moryoga, I couldn't care less about Zep, but have exemplary LPs of Who Are You issued on day of original release and later by Classic Records.

CDs sound great; until you hear a good vinyl set-up. On paper, vinyl should have died out with the b&w picture tube television set. Spec sheets are tailored to the product that is being marketed. CDs have better dynamic range, better S/N, zero wow&flutter on paper. Vinyl sounds better. Maybe its like in the movie, The Matrix; the matrix kept failing because it was a perfect world. We want something less than perfection, or just maybe the spec sheets are not comparing the right parameters. It definitely helps when a record has a dead quite background. I wonder if that's why some of these new reissues sound better- quieter background.

Spent a good bit of time listening to these this weekend. All are very quiet, flat, and sound very good. The best seems to be II. I dont have good versions for comparison but I am very glad I bought these. They will see a lot of time on my TT.

Tonywinc wrote,

"CDs sound great; until you hear a good vinyl set-up." Maybe so, on the other hand I can make the statement, vinyl sounds great until you hear a good CD set up. Did you know that in 2001 Stereophile's Mike Fremer, the uber vinyl dude and author of the long standing Analogue Corner column in Stereophile, made the observation that of the five best sounding systems at the show that year four were digital systems?

Imagine how good those 4 systems would have sounded with vinyl front ends.

I have heard HD Audio files. Those have the potential to beat vinyl. If that format survives, I could go there one day. HD Audio, what I heard had the full dimensionality of vinyl and the quiet, perfect presentation of digital. After hearing some HD Audio tracks on a top end system and then going back to CDs, the images felt like flat cardboard figures and the soundstage was smaller.

I find it amazing just how good the sound we can get out of vinyl and how that horse has stayed in the race this long.