2007-08-29 22:56:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Other - Music
Hello.I agree that musical texture has been lost when the demise of the vinyl album was replaced with the cd. Classical vinyl albums, when cared for properly and played on an expensive sound system,are by and large superior in audio to that of the cd. There is something asthetically pleasing about watching a 12" (30cm) album revolving at 33.3rpm on a record deck.With a very lightweight pickup tonearm,and a diamond stylus weighing no more than 0.5gram,an album should last for many years and play superbly for many times before audible faults occur. With a cd, all you do is take it out of its jewel case,stick it on a cd player platter,watch it disappear into the unknown,and hear what the infra-red picks up. In some cases,CDs are inferior to albums.
mp3 uses sound compression and is essentially worse than cds of that there is no doubt.The whole idea of mp3 is to put as much music into the smallest place possible. The reproduction quite frankly is dreadful. It is the equivalent of recording a cd onto a ferric oxide cassette.
I hope that helps answer your question.
Alan L.
2007-08-29 23:11:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
totally disagree with mel!
the vinyl gave a richer sound [plus] but every dust particle was a crackle [minus]
valve radio gave a richer sound too!
cd and mp3 are a similar format - both digital but the mp3 is compressed taking up about a fifth osf the room on a cd [therefore only a fifth of the data so obviously the quality is going to be lower but the human ear cannot tell unless the sample rate falls below a certain threshold that threshold is different for each individual.i use 172Kbps for music but only 16kbps for speech
2007-08-30 06:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by andy t 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hated it when CD's started to dominate the music shop shelves. I used to love going into a record shop to buy an album. When you walked out with your big bag it looked like you'd actually bought something. And there's nothing like the feeling you get when you take a pristine vinyl album out of it's slip cover for the first time.
MP3's are even worse. I can understand their purpose in todays digital age, but it's like buying air. You just get a song and nothing else.
2007-08-30 06:34:55 · answer #3 · answered by Tish P 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think ot depends on the player, if you're playing it on an itronics mp3 it's going to be less quality than an apple iPod, i suppose with all the enhancements you can get on mP3's does make it better quality than a CD, it depends what genre the song is i think, good luck x
2007-08-30 06:03:37 · answer #4 · answered by ωєℓѕн 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't find any difference between CDs and MP3s the only difference I hear is the what order.the songs are played in.
2007-08-30 08:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cds are way better than vinyl (or records). mp3's are just as good.
records are for a time gone by and are symbolic of people trying to hang on to the past.
2007-08-30 06:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Unless digital data corrupts overtime, I doubht MP3s will lose quality.
2007-08-30 06:04:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to be an oscilloscope to tell the difference...
2007-08-30 05:59:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they're less scratchy.
2007-08-30 05:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋