Vinyl Vs Mp3 Blind Test

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

Vinyl vs mp3 blind test.

I suspect the whole vinyl vs digital thing started in the early days of cds when for several reasons the quality of cd listening was nothing like it is today. 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. However that doesn t mean all cds are garbage. 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.

I decide to let the vinyl do the talking and set up a double blind test vinyl vs cd. 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. Does vinyl reproduce sound better or is it just. It s very much alive and is much more preferable than listening to music in a digital format.

Why vinyl sounds better than cd or not according to rolling stone magazine sales of vinyl albums continue to grow setting a new record in 2010.