Old Recordings Sound Better On Vinyl Than New Recordings

We explain the benefits of 180 gram vinyl to see if they are worth the premium price.

Old recordings sound better on vinyl than new recordings.

Sales of vinyl records have been soaring although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the music industry s revenues. These audiophile grade albums demand high prices at record stores. Even as a kid i always took care of my records and while there are occasional noises clicks and pops some of my old records sound better to my ears than cds. Many new vinyl record releases tout their selling feature of being pressed on 180 gram vinyl.

Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made. For digital to truly eclipse vinyl thousands of records from the 1990s onward would need a remaster. Vinyl is back no doubt about it. Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music.

To get rich sound you d need to put no more than 17. Rca records branded these as dynaflex citing innovation in vinyl production. About 2 percent in 2014. The center labels were removed from old records and the vinyl was then melted down and reused.

For old stuff absolutely katz says. 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. In fact simply because vinyl was kept alive primarily by audiophiles we saw more audiophile records being made. If you re buying new music there s no point to buying vinyl.

Back in the day making records was an industrial process with millions and millions of records. You can make new lps and i ve done some for dance artists but it s a fad without much of a point. The recording industry has a new standard for dvd audio discs that will greatly improve the sound quality. In brief an engineer such as gonsalves receives mixed recordings from the studio or even a band s laptop.

Rather than using only virgin vinyl they now began adding recycled scraps. The original was recorded digitally and never went to analog tapes. Records made today can sound better. Bits of paper were sometimes embedded in and around the edges of these wobbly new platters.

With a decent turntable analog.