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Vinyl Record: Analog vs. Digital

It is said that digital forms are not so accurate to the source of music than analog form, which convert the music into a digital format, before being converted back to analog for reproduction.

Vinyl format provides a very rich tone where as digital format doesn’t have that kind of quality in the tone. The main reason for this is that the rich tone on the vinyl format provides more grooves so the tone reaches your amplifier with a boost. When a song played in the vinyl format is played it gives a sound in a very original tone feels like you are listening live to the singer.

In digital sounds like MP3 and AAC the sound is compressed and that is the main reason that you cannot the pure sound quality that a CD gives you that is why CD’s are preferred better when it comes to quality of a sound. Nevertheless these digital formats have gained a lot of popularity and they would continue to do so because they are easy to be handled, they are less spacious and almost weightless, and I hope later we even see better devices than these which can produce the sound of a CD.

Resolution comes into play when the musical data is converted into digital data. The simple example would be of a picture as we can zoom a 1000 mega pixel lot more than a 100 mega pixel one the same is in music. In a CD we see that the rate depends on the quality a CD is 16-bit where as DVD is 24-bit. This is what quality does.

When we talk about higher frequency it is done better by vinyl. You won’t find high quality sounds better on digital it could just go on with the lower quality ones. Vinyl produces high quality sound better with a high pitch that makes you feel you’re standing right there where this particular sound is made.

Vinyl could even play bass sounds better, it sounds always thicker better and more natural.  Now you may get to know that whenever the DJ’S record sound they do it on vinyl because digital gets too thin.

Digital comes into play when there is a need of hiss or lighter tone but if the album is full of rock songs than it’s completely vinyl used. Though CD and MP3 have given us a modern way of enjoying music but if you want to add bass and a much better quality to your sound use vinyl for that.

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September 20, 2010 at 9:41 am Comments (0)

Why Has Vinyl Records Become So Popular Again?

Music has been ongoing for decades and its lovers have done whatever it takes to promote forward, and for such people there was a mindset that vinyl records have a richer and a best quality sound. For those who love something classic, the sound of vinyl record has always been considered as the true sound despite of that it was considered by the few. However in few years time the vinyl record has gained popularity and it has converted to a healthy sales growth. This has given another new life to stores who have been selling vinyl records.

The question that now urges is that how could something going down so poorly has enormously rose up to such an high extinct. This passage would tell us what exactly is the history of vinyl records and how has it enormously grown sales to such an extinct.

When it comes to music vinyl was the first physical music format and that is the reason it had dominated the market for a long time. Vinyl was known as the first type of commercial physical music format that exist. And for a long time it has been dominating the market for physical music. Nevertheless there were many other types of music but vinyl was common as whenever one thought of listening to music he had to buy a vinyl. However after sometime the CDs took over and no sooner it was the end of vinyl as people began to turn over CD no doubt CD was effective and had put a full stop on the name of vinyl. CD even had a cheaper price and somewhat better sound quality, people could carry CDS even elsewhere like playing in the car, listening on the disc man and after sometime data could even be transferred from 1 CD to another were the ups that gave CD more importance than vinyl.

As days went by things started to get smaller and more useful MP3 players then came into action, people when they had better internet connections music could be downloaded for free and so things became modern and pushed behind CDs It didn’t take long before whatever music you would want could be downloaded for free. After this CDs got stuck in the middle because it is cheaper for the lower class, so finally things have gone this way that CDs are stuck in the middle because it neither had flexibility nor the physical characteristics of vinyl.

The thing that attracts towards vinyl is that experience what you gain when you listen to vinyl music this type of music is ritual in its own. Taking out a record raising up the needle and then when you start it’s just feels so much pleasure that is the main reason wht vinyl is still alive because this world has become such a fast place that whatever is left behind could never chase up except quality stuff and vinyl is certainly one of them.

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September 16, 2010 at 4:18 pm Comments (0)