Collecting Cds Vs Vinyl

I want to start collecting physical copies of my favorite albums and i can t decide between cds or vinyl.

Collecting cds vs vinyl. Vinyl pressings for major label. Not so fragile and you don t have to turn it every 20 minutes. This article hopes to outline a few points which can help you along in your crate digging adventures. 0 comments share save hide report 100 upvoted log in or sign up to leave a comment log in.

However as music reaches the marketplace vinyl nearly always wins out over cds especially when played through the expensive equipment favored by vinylphiles. Well vinyl is more of a pain in the rear end to take care of and you generally don t get more than 25 minutes per side whereas a cd you can get up to 75 minutes and digital downloads well more and less if you know what i. So i will keep on with both cds and vinyl. Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history.

Collecting cds articles a beginner s guide to classical music music periods music styles collecting classical compact discs boxed sets glenn gould classical music for children faced with 30 different recordings of the four. Half my buyings are cds. Reissues is a recurrent topic among vinyl junkies. Maybe it doesn t sound quite as full as a vinyl but on the other hand you don t have any noise.

While vinyl records in theory directly encode a smooth audio wave cds sample that. On the other hand there. The latter is especially true of vinyl produced in the 90s through the early 00s when vinyl sales were at their lowest and cds completely dominated the market. 80 s vinyl is plentiful but still flimsy and rather bendy.

There are many albums where the vinyl sounds better than the cd issue or no cd has ever been issued or the cd is just taken from the vinyl anyway obviously in those cases the vinyl is the way to go. The cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle. Which do you prefer and why.