I don’t understand the world.
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I love vinyl. Better sound, natural breaks every half album. The big coverart. If you buy new stuff it will often include a digital download voucher, so it’s not a bad deal at all I think.
But yeah, if I didn’t find the sound to be better I probably wouldn’t buy it. Not all people care about these details though. I can understand that.
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It’s weird, CD’s were made to have better sound quality than vinyl records. That was their big selling point and it’s why most record shops went out of business.
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I still buy CDs. It’s getting harder to find a lot of old punk albums on CD. I had to buy a used copy of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” just to get it on CD.
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Vinyl records are actually considered to be the only true lossless audio storage format, something that tends to surprise people who think the digital version carries more info. There is some loss when the music is translated to CD, but with a 44,100khz sample rate and at 16-bits of information per sample, the loss in a CD is not something the human ear can pick up.
Vinyl is considered to have an analog warmth to it. To be honest, I hate vinyl with a passion and don’t miss it. I find you can easily get that warmth back with a high-quality DAC and a vacuum tube compressor in the output chain. Even better, your song on CD doesn’t degrade with each play.
DAT was actually my favourite format. I miss it.
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