Originally Posted by AlizéeInspired (Post 169718)

Nice. As for vinyl being dead, I have often heard that vinyl sound is actually better than CD and other digital sound.

Digital recording takes a lot of snapshots of the analog sound (natural sound). For a CD there are about 44,100 or so snapshots taken a minute. The snapshots are then converted into digital information with certain precision. For a CD recording this precision is 16 bits. Which means that every one of the 44,100 snapshots needs to be converted into one of the 65,536 possible values.

So the argument is that digital recording doesn't include all the sound information, where a record player is strictly analog and does. A vinyl record has a groove carved into it that mirrors the original sound's waveform. The record player then uses this groove to make an analog sound signal which can be fed into an amplifier. So, in this process, no information can be lost. No snapshots need to be taken and the sound doesn't need be converted to one of the possible 65,536 values. There is basically an infinite number of 'snapshots' and 'possible values'. Therefore, a vinyl recording generally sounds better than a CD recording.

But as technology advances, we are able to come closer to vinyl recordings as we are capable of a much larger number of possible snapshots in a minute.


Hope you enjoy your vinyl :) I wish I could have ordered one, but I don't have the money at the time for that and a turntable :(

Originally Posted by ImRawdg (Post 169738)

I got a turntable last month as well, though not for this. I mostly have been buying old prog rock albums and things that I see that I want. I now really wish I had the vinyls for the whole UEDS album. The picture disc is sitting at my post office right now, I got a notification in the mail. By the way, what is the rpm of the picture disc (and I guess the album vinyls too because I'm curious)?