Does A Vinyl Or Cd Last Longer

Vinyl vs cd.

Does a vinyl or cd last longer.

In listening pleasure vintage vinyl beats cd around 90 95 of the time. The vinyl lp is a format based on technology that hasn t evolved much over the last six decades. The amplifier then raises the voltage of the signal to a level powerful enough to drive your speaker. Cd quality sits somewhere in the middle with 44 100 samples per second at 16 bit accuracy.

In your home stereo the cd or dvd player takes this digital recording and converts it to an analog signal which is fed to your amplifier. Playback and inconsistencies though cd s sample rate is high and we re all well aware how good they sound the idea of its being converted once into digital and then back to analogue losing and approximating information seems to infer it will. If it was a digital recording then you will get a digital sound. On the other hand i have the first lp i bought in the 50 s and it is in good condition.

Every now and then something surprises. In some ways it s the audio equivalent of driving a ford pilot. Vinyl as long as you ve looked after it is superior in sound. Sonically vinyl has both.

The exception is modern vinyl pressed in the last ten years which is disappointing on 90 95 of occasions and offers little advantage over cd. But looking after vinyl can be a big pain to most people. I have a record cleaning machine that uses alcohol to do the job so it is a major operation. Many discs can last for centuries but most won t.

Because vinyl s restrictions do not permit the same abuse of audio levels as the cd mayo says that listeners might hear a wider dynamic range in an album mixed separately for vinyl over a compact. Preservationists are worried about troves of records stored on what was once considered a durable medium. I want to avoid some confusion here if it was recorded through an analog device then you will get all the analog sound even if it has been turned into digital. Bear in mind not all modern vinyl is equal.