Some formats age better than others.
Does vinyl sound better than cassette.
Is a cd quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a cd.
All of that to say while vinyl and cassette ruled the day commercially in the 70s and 80s there was no debate as to which format sounded better.
If you were serious about your sound you listened to vinyl.
There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.
Does vinyl really sound better.
I took the cassette and made a listening comparison.
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.
But it will sound.
That all started to change with the advent of the compact disc.
Amazingly the cassette sounded better than the vinyl.
Thanks to superior sound quality and a susceptibility to scratching records are still first choice for many on the club scene.
Updated mar 26 2019.
The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality.
I have heard that there are poor sounding records and i guess this is one of them.
It s an age old question does vinyl sound better than cd.
There are many questions that can be answered definitively on the differences between cds and vinyl but if what you seek is proof that one sounds better than the other you might be quite disappointed.
The cassette is 40 years old and in my opinion the sound quality is still above the average.
And that s the format that recording professionals cared about.
Cassettes on the other hand are nowhere to be found.