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Vinyl analysis -- Musicians rate CD vs. LP sound in blindfold test

Sure, even a non-astute reader will see the sloppiness in this "research", although the author does cover his ass later in the article: "Basically, there are dozens of confounding variables."

What's most striking to me, is that both Boston dailies published similar articles on the very same day! The one from the Globe, I posted yesterday; I don't read the Herald until later.

So here's how it begins:

Sales of old-fashioned, newly hip vinyl records keep climbing. More and more current bands - and their young fans - want new music released on the same vinyl format their parents grew up listening to.

But why? Sure, 12-inch records look cooler than puny CDs. But do they actually sound better? Jack White of the White Stripes thinks so: He’s already told fans to buy the new album by his other band, the Raconteurs, on record if they want to hear it at its best.

Of course, this contradicts what record companies said when they introduced the “perfect sound forever” of the CD in the mid-’80s. Were they mistaken? Can a scratchy slab of vinyl actually out-perform the millions of ones and zeros encoded on compact discs?




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Topic - Vinyl analysis -- Musicians rate CD vs. LP sound in blindfold test - clarkjohnsen 08:42:27 06/4/08 (216)

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