Do Vinyl Records Sound Better

Vinyl is back no doubt about it.

Do vinyl records sound better.

For digital to truly eclipse vinyl thousands of records from the 1990s onward would need a remaster. About 2 percent in 2014. There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats. So no vinyl isn t better than digital music but it offers several advantages because of the fact that loudness war mixing isn t feasible on the medium.

Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war with the rise of digital music cds included it s possible to make a track sound louder than it naturally should. There s basically nothing you can do to make an hour long album on one record sound good gonsalves said. Just in 2017 the number of records sold had risen by 10 according to soundscan. Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues.

Of course when you listen in on casual discussions of sound in 2013 you often hear that lps are back because they sound better this has happened in part because digital audio is now. Vinyl s capable of a lot but only if the grooves are wide enough for the needle to.