Reply londonjazzcollector on may 12 2015 at 20 36 said.
Collecting cds vs vinyl.
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Vinyl pressings for major label.
Since cds rely on sampling an original analog signal being recorded they do have some frequency limitations.
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.
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While vinyl records in theory directly encode a smooth audio wave cds sample that.
On the other hand there.
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.
80 s vinyl is plentiful but still flimsy and rather bendy.
Which do you prefer and why.
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.
Reissues is a recurrent topic among vinyl junkies.
Half my buyings are cds.
I want to start collecting physical copies of my favorite albums and i can t decide between cds or vinyl.
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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.
Not so fragile and you don t have to turn it every 20 minutes.
A cd will never leave you with same satisfaction as a vinyl record but is is much handyer.