Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium.
Equivalent bitrate of vinyl.
A cd is 16 bit this is due to the fact that cd s have and offer better dynamic range.
I ll probably do the lossless transfer anyway though.
In some ways it s the audio equivalent of driving a ford pilot.
There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often stand out like you d expect them to at a live performance.
Sonically vinyl has both.
I was a little uncertain because tape s quality is more suspect than vinyl or cd.
People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal processing.
Comparing compact discs cds to vinyl or gramophone records is the musical equivalent of comparing digital photography with film photography.
Vinyl can still push music to the limits of its dynamic range 55 70db but it often shies away from doing so in order to maintain sound quality.
The amplitude is the only information explicitly stored in the sample and it is typically stored.
That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings.
When comparing bitrate or the amount of data transferred per second high resolution audio s bitrate 9 216 kbps is nearly seven times higher than that of cds 1 411 kbps and almost 29 times higher than that of mp3s 320 kbps.
Right but when people do the digital transfers of vinyl there s still a standard more or less bitrate for digital conversion so i should have probably clarified.
A pcm signal is a sequence of digital audio samples containing the data providing the necessary information to reconstruct the original analog signal each sample represents the amplitude of the signal at a specific point in time and the samples are uniformly spaced in time.
Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history the cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle.
And the higher the bitrate the more accurately the signal is measured.
Yes a cd i.
