https://www.npr.org/2012/02/10/146697658/why-vinyl-sounds-better-than-cd-or-not
I learned a lot in that.
It seems that much of the "this sounds better than that" isn't because one medium is somehow more accurate than the other, it's that one has to do the mastering differently for the two media because of their different characteristics. If you take an old giant tape recording and compare a vinyl album made from it and a CD made from it, they're going to sound very different unless you compensate for the different media. You can't just make a "perfect" copy that sounds "correct".
We're apparently listening to bad CDs and MP3s unless they were re-mastered.
Cheers,
Scott.
I learned a lot in that.
It seems that much of the "this sounds better than that" isn't because one medium is somehow more accurate than the other, it's that one has to do the mastering differently for the two media because of their different characteristics. If you take an old giant tape recording and compare a vinyl album made from it and a CD made from it, they're going to sound very different unless you compensate for the different media. You can't just make a "perfect" copy that sounds "correct".
We're apparently listening to bad CDs and MP3s unless they were re-mastered.
Cheers,
Scott.