This CD bashing trend started by the same magazines that praised the recordings is now so dishonest. Read reviews and they wax on with the same praise they do for vinyl and streaming now days. Sound of vinyl improved from the 1930’s to the late 40’s and 50’s. Digital and CD are not any different, you learn as you go in any design and this goes for amps to speaker.
Having grown up with analog and vinyl when in a week more vinyl was so sold than in a year now days.
Streaming is now #1in sales and for good reason young folks like to take music with them, so a cell phone is ideal and a good set of ear buds. They want tracks not whole albums. It’s a new generation, and like always audiophiles are a speck in total sales.
I enjoy by vast CD collection as much as my vinyl. Each can be very good and both equally suffer from bad production and mastering.
To say one format is more accurate is nonsense. Every table, arm and cartridge i owned changed the sound of my vinyl, not to mention rake and vta settings and the support the turntable sat on and which mat I used impacted the reproduction not to mention the vinyl used, it’s thickness and which pressing you purchased.
I’ve heard later vinyl pressing sound like a transistor radio. That was the impact of the later mastering and pressing. Run from RE on the back lp cover. Best sound was always from the 1st pressings period.
By the 70’s lots of compression was used and lots of rock music sound like mud, dull, some thin and lifeless unlike the golden era sonically 50’s and early 60’s with the exception s being direct to discs like Sheffield Labs, M & K and a few others.
Not to mention back in the vinyl days dealers were experts at turntable setup with scopes to get your cartridge just right and they were local, next cartridge they installed that and set that up for you. I could never get it as correct as they could.
Today a dealer is far and in between to find with the skills they had back then in the golden era of our hobby. McIntosh clinics where you bring your McIntosh gear in and they spec if for you and adjust it for Free.
No shame in liking CD, keep buying them, nothing wrong with vinyl either, is boomers format. With both formats care must be taken and care with setup of each, room acoustic and power cords.
If your cell phone is good enough for you to enjoy or digital radio or Pandora where you do not really need to own anything and enjoy the music you like well that is good for you, but not for me. I enjoyed collecting and I have another 20 CD’s being delivered this week and all exceptional sounding. Many of my CD’s will never be on vinyl as many of my vinyl not on CD.
