In some ways it s the audio equivalent of driving a ford pilot.
Equivalent bitrate of vinyl.
There are several reasons at least one of them valid.
The vinyl lp is a format based on technology that hasn t evolved much over the last six decades.
There s very little compression so the loudest parts of those sounds often stand out like you d expect them to at a live performance.
A pcm signal is a sequence of digital audio samples containing the data providing the necessary information to reconstruct the original analog signal each sample represents the amplitude of the signal at a specific point in time and the samples are uniformly spaced in time.
Vinyl can still push music to the limits of its dynamic range 55 70db but it often shies away from doing so in order to maintain sound quality.
And the higher the bitrate the more accurately the signal is measured.
I ll probably do the lossless transfer anyway though.
A cd is 16 bit this is due to the fact that cd s have and offer better dynamic range.
Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium.
The math has been done at to where they did say that vinyl records are the equivalent to 13 bit digital audio.
That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings.
People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal processing.
Yes a cd i.
Sonically vinyl has both.
The amplitude is the only information explicitly stored in the sample and it is typically stored.
Right but when people do the digital transfers of vinyl there s still a standard more or less bitrate for digital conversion so i should have probably clarified.
Cds and vinyl records are both audio storage and playback formats based on rotating discs from different times in music history the cd audio is digitally encoded and read by a laser while analog vinyl audio is physically read by a needle.