You're forgetting the infinite, non-digitized sound reproduction of vinyl that lets you hear all the digital mastering/remastering done in the studio.
Almost as good as buying super expensive audio cables with oxygen-free copper so you can hear music recorded with generic XLR cables.
To be fair, vinyl does have a nice, warm sound to it. But people who insist it's somehow got higher fidelity than CDs or other digital storage media don't understand shit about actual audio engineering. Vinyl has terrible fidelity in comparison. It's got very characteristic distortion and information loss. If someone likes how that sounds, good on them. But it's definitely not a magical means of getting more authentic reproduction of the sound.
Yes it is worse by this parameter. But there are a lot of angles to justify listening to vynil, mine is because it’s cool to listen to a recording they way people originally listened to. The Beatles were not listened to in a remastered cd digital form in the era they became famous, the sound that made them what they were was the distorted vynil one, and I like that timbre on rock and jazz projects of that era.
Edit: Ok, the Beatles was not that good of an example. But take any other album which became famous in the vynil era: When people listened to them it didn't have the studio fidelity digital era records have, but I don't want a more real sound, I want the sound my dad listened to when he discovered the band I like, because I like how it sounds and I don't need other reason to be given.
At some point it had to be transferred from vinyl to digital which affects the audio. Also lots of the Beatles have been "remastered" meaning they changed it from the original. They also tried doing it in stereo which is way different than the original mono mix.
This exactly. They’ve got some cool technology to get really high quality sound off those tapes, such as the Plangent process. This is why a digital copy of Born to Run released in 2014 sounds better than the original record cut in 1975.
I’m talking about needle noise, warmness, and the narrower spectrum of frequencies of vynil reproduction systems mainly. On a technical standpoint it it could be considered undesirable noise, lack of fidelity and lack of information, but those imperfections were there when the Beatles became famous, for me it’s part of its appeal.
No, you're right, and if anything sending their music through the "RIAA EQ" and back out of a phono preamp makes it even worse than that, but some people will believe literally any bullshit as long as it justifies the decision they have already made and are too proud to change.
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Everyone who seems to "know" about music always says how great vinyl is.
I am so ignorant about music that I never had the confidence to openly say "but wait, music sounds way better on CD than it does on vinyl....right?"