Vinyl Vs Mp3 Blind Test

Let s take a trip to a record store and i ll tell you the four reasons why 12 vinyl records are better than digital mp3.

Vinyl vs mp3 blind test.

As i mentioned anything that was originally recorded for vinyl always wins the competition. For a start if you make a digital recording using only 16 bits the bit depth of a cd then you have to leave at least four bits headroom to cope with unexpected peaks. It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format. However that doesn t mean all cds are garbage.

Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. As compressed mp3 files and digital streaming services from youtube to pandora have become the norm for music listening vinyl sales have skyrocketed from under a million in 2007 to potentially. Unfortunately no one appears to have done a double blind listener test comparing vinyl to cds but there is a good study from florida state s john geringer and patrick dunnigan doing that with. I decide to let the vinyl do the talking and set up a double blind test vinyl vs cd.

Whenever i have new people over to the house for a listening session this discussion always comes up.