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More accurately- vinyl is more 'pleasingly distorted' than a CD's so-called 'fidelity'.
Neither medium is any better then it's source material.
A performance recorded with tag-sale Radio Shack cassette recorder microphones and placed on CD will sound terrible.
That same performance recorded with the latest microphones at 192k/32-bit floating point DACs and placed on even the most ambivilently mastered vinyl will sound waaaaay better.
(although the vinyl will introduce one more generation of distortion as CD reproduction will still more accurately reproduce whatever the final recording was- that is to say the CD still has more potential frequency and dynamic range than the vinyl (provided the recording initially captured it)).
CDs are meant to mimic the frequency and dynamic range of the human ear, but it falls short (artistically and technically). Vinyl falls shorter, though it's imperfections tend mimic the limitations of human hearing.
In the end, it's down to the creators to decide what kind and how many imperfections & distortions they can allow in their reproductions.
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Jul 9, 2020 - 8:21 AM
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Rameau
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Be very wary of the term "remastered" on a CD. That can mean a lot of different things.
Well some superstar bands have had the same album released 4-5 times, some with extra tracks ect. & each release sounds different, remixed/remastered to the style of the day, usually loud & punchy these days, so it sounds good with earbuds. Some Beatles albums are on their third release (Pepper, White Album & Abbey Road). Usually fans have their favourite release, maybe the second release out of five. A few years ago I was reading some good things on Amazon about a German Steely Dan compilation called Collected (three CDs), & how much better they sounded than the other releases. It had been deleted, but I managed to buy one, & I was really impressed. Probably a punchy mix for the ipod generation, but it sounds great to me.
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Jul 9, 2020 - 8:37 AM
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OnyaBirri
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Be very wary of the term "remastered" on a CD. That can mean a lot of different things.
Well some superstar bands have had the same album released 4-5 times, some with extra tracks ect. & each release sounds different, remixed/remastered to the style of the day, usually loud & punchy these days, so it sounds good with earbuds. Some Beatles albums are on their third release (Pepper, White Album & Abbey Road). Usually fans have their favourite release, maybe the second release out of five. A few years ago I was reading some good things on Amazon about a German Steely Dan compilation called Collected (three CDs), & how much better they sounded than the other releases. It had been deleted, but I managed to buy one, & I was really impressed. Probably a punchy mix for the ipod generation, but it sounds great to me.
"Remastering" can mean everything from going back to the original tapes and doing a new digital transfer, to taking the most recent digital remaster and mildly tweaking the levels. It is a very misleading term, perhaps deliberately so.
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