which is better? cd or vinyl

[arto]

i gotta go with cd, it just seems cooler to me, but they both have their pros and cons

[76561198356019466]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von talemore:

8 inch floppy disk

i don't miss those either.

[Kamiyama]

Fun fact: each vinyl disc is different because of imperfections and people who enjoy lofi will enjoy vinyl.

Most of my collection is in mp3 format. I have some CD"s but mostly it's digital.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

vinyl is superior sound quality over cd

[Acetyl]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kamiyama:

Most of my collection is in mp3 format.

mp3 even @ 320kb/s (or equivalent identical VBR) has frequency shelving at 20 KHz iirc. 128 kb/s frequency cutoff is ~16 KHz. I assume other than waves affecting other waves, subsonic and ultrasonic frequencies still affect an organism even if they're not consciously detected or picked up by the ear itself.

[Fake]

Vinyl > DJ Pon-3
Derpy > Muffins

[GlaceonChireiden]

CD all the way for me. Granted, I actually listen to them and don't just have them for collection sake.
I hate that cars don't have CD players anymore, makes me very reluctant to get a new car.

I hate seeing vinyls everywhere. I'll see news of a video game ost getting a physical release and get super excited, then immediately lose said excitement when its revealed to be just be a vinyl. Ugh.

Also vinyls just seem like a pain in the butt to store

[steven1mac]

Phonograph cylinders for the win.

[Lupinus Rictus]

Cds for albums, vinyls for singles

[aka]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Acetyl:

In digital vs analog, depends on if it's CD redbook (16 bit 44.1 KHz) and the DAC + amp used. Vinyl will always be higher noise vs cleaner digital, dependent on pressing, and subject to a degree of wear, and stereo separation isn't completely perfect, but can potentially have more detail (which may be resolveable, maybe not) and there's no digital to analog stage in between. Don't know, never done real tests, just talking in rough theory.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von aka:

In 1000 years after WW3, vinyl will still work perfectly, even using a rubber band and a bucket, but CD's will need magneto-optical lasers, and 2500 other things to lvl up the laser so it might read the silly foil, it will also need a power source, which is not a big deal, but maybe it will be in the future .... perhaps the power source will give away your location to some kind of immortal extermination nano mites, that might destroy you.

Stuff like M-DISC would survive bitrot and other conditions. Imagine if we could inscribe data in quartz.

That would be sick :D

[Anosmyk]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 💕 𝓑𝓾𝓷 💕:

vinyl is superior sound quality over cd

Yeth at face value.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

analogue > but digital nice casue you can store 1000 records in a matchbox

[Pierce Dalton]

Vinyl, better sound quality and bigger covers are awesome.

[hypercybermegatron]

DSD beats both

[Acetyl]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Doctor Dankenstein:

Telepathic brainwaves are superior.

Radiohead.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Digital.

I can store my entire music collection on a single flash drive in high-bitrate digital audio that even CD players wouldn't be able to play, like lossless flac files and such.

Records have too much white noise/background because of the physical media connection. I don't need every song to have an underlying "kshhhhhhhhhhhhh" noise going on, and I also don't want to spend craploads of money to try and compensate for that.

CDs were great before digital storage but still had issues with compression and skipping and scratching and just taking up space.

Mini-Discs were pretty cool, I'd say better than CDs because the disc was physically protected, and could be played/recorded on at slower rates allowing for more music storage than CDs. A music CD can only play 74 minutes of music where a "Long Play" minidisc could play 160 or 320 minutes of audio.