What sounds better: a record player or a CD player?

8 Responses to “What sounds better: a record player or a CD player?”

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   Al Inshearah
   February 27th, 2010 2:39 pm

   The LP by far as it is a anolgue representation of a anologue sound. A CD is a sampled representation, therefore some information is lost
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   Billy
   February 27th, 2010 2:45 pm

   You are comparing "apples" to "oranges" here. Even a cheap poorly made CD player will sound better than a top of the line record player. Reason is CD’s are playing digital music and the records are not digital.

   With that said, you can still get some nice sound from a LP player. I’ve got one myself. But it can’t be as good as a CD player. Just doesn’t have the advantages digital playback has.
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   BK thang
   February 27th, 2010 2:59 pm

   Record player. Why you think they still use vinyls in clubs.
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   vipin k
   February 27th, 2010 3:18 pm

   cd player
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   Sanmigsean
   February 27th, 2010 3:46 pm

   LP by waaaay far. See the first answer. CD’s can’t reproduce the upper and lower end as the analog recording will.
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   y2kguyarea51
   February 27th, 2010 4:12 pm

   What do you think Digitally remastering is? It’s taking sound files and enhancing the sound tenfold, and then burning it onto a media that is far superior to something such as vinyl. Vinyl for its time was great, but now it’s outdated and outperformed. The highest bitrate for something like a Vinyl is around 110 bitrate, not bad but certainly not the best. 320 is normally the best bitrate you can achieve for music files, and that’s in CD stereo format. So I’m certain that should completely answer your question.
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   D-Zyne
   February 27th, 2010 4:37 pm

   You CD guys are so far off base….
   Sound of any form is an analog wave; music from an instrument; speech from your mouth; engine noises from your car; the sounds coming from your speakers; they are all analog. In order for these sounds to become digital, they need to be SAMPLED; notice I didn’t say converted, I said SAMPLED. A digital SAMPLE is NOT the same thing as the original analog sound, it is an approximation of what it sounds like. And in order for them to be reproduced for your ear, they need to translated BACK to analog. How accurate is a message going to be if it’s written in English, translated to French by one person, then back to Engligh again by another person?
   By definition, analog means continuous and digital means broken up into sections. Now you tell me, what will sound more natural; one long, continuous sound wave or that same sound broken up into a million little fragments?
   CD’s and digital media can sound very good and they are getting better. And digital certainly has its benefits- no wow & flutter speed variations, no clicks and pops, no motor rumble; but the simple fact is that less accurate sound reproduction is the trade-off for these benefits. For true, accurate sound reproduction an properly calibrated turntable playing analog vinyl recordings blows digital out of the freakin’ water!

   PS This argument has been going on for 20+ years amongst us audiophiles.
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   mrruxpin
   February 27th, 2010 5:16 pm

   that depends on the recording, lp’s have extra " harmonics" in the recording, that not much unlike a " live " sound or the sound of someone standing next to you would feel like, generaly " i-pod’s" or other digitaly compressed audio, lack a lot of the audio info we need to reproduce audio, on that level, but know one can tell anymore…..in this genaration, thats all people have ever heard.
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   17 years, acoustic research, and design, 9 years live sound reproduction

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