Does Vinyl Sound Better Than Flac

We compare the sound quality of analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac on a 100k stereo setup.

Does vinyl sound better than flac.

The results may surprise you as they did us. There is analog audio coming from the vinyl record and its quality depends on many factors related to the player its pickup stylus and the phono amplifier. This means that the same vinyl record can p. However note that the reason why these versions sound better has nothing to do with the format itself and the cds may be perfectly fine and unraped.

Vinyl sounds better than mp3s ever could. Most of the music is broadcast in some lossy format where details are missed and the overall quality is reduced. Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium. When this version is sold as a hi rez 24 192 flac or pressed onto vinyl it will sound better than the cd version which suffers from sometimes severely reduced dynamics.

Lossless digital is better from a sound quality perspective assuming decent source material mastering. Check out our listening results. People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal processing. It happens because audio files get compressed to make them small enough to store thousands of them on the phone and to stream online.

See our youtube debate. There are several reasons at least one of them valid.