Possessed said:
True. But my dad has a huge vinyl and CD collection. Lots of titles on both. Haven’t encountered a single instance where the vinyl didn’t blow the CD out of the water. Played on the same receiver and speakers. A good turntable and receiver with good receivers is going to sound better, you can quote as many articles if you want but until you’ve heard vinyl on the proper setup you haven’t heard recorded music.
Hahaha no.
The last third of EVERY side of EVERY record suffers from audible Inner Groove Distortion. It is a fundamental, inescapable limitation of the vinyl medium. As a partial ameliorative measure, the cutting engineers painstakingly REMOVE higher frequencies from the waveform gradually as they move into the center of the disc. This is a measurable, audible, undebatable LOSS of information and fidelity. And it HAS to be done on EVERY record.
And it sounds, frankly, like goddamn shit.
I say this as a compulsive vinyl collector.
Then, there is the unmistakable, rhythmic THWIP that happens, to some degree, on a significant minority of records due to minor disc warping, which happens during manufacture. Watch a record. Except for a very few lucky flat pressings, the tonearm will almost always bob up and down to some degree. This causes audible WOW on nearly every disc, and frequently (I’d estimate a quarter of new pressings that I buy) you get that nice THWIP as the tonearm takes a moment too long to dip back down into the groove.