CD's or Vinyl?


Gun to your head, if you could only pick one, which would you choose.  As nostalgic and sublime as Vinyl can be I think I'd have to go with Cd's.  Just seems cleaner and more pristine to me.

And You?

 

klimt

I play both formats and they are very close sound wise 

I will say though that I find more cds with loud  brick walled mastering or very harsh loud dynamics and don’t find nearly any records with those characteristics

My point is that vinyl seems to be more consistent when it comes to listenable

recordings.   The cd era mastering was all over the map and vinyl mastering has been around much longer 

Just my take 

 

 

As we get older, this isn’t necessarily going to be a hypothetical.  I definitely prefer CDs and one advantage is that they can be easily burned to a server with no sonic compromises, which in turn saves space if health issues mandate having to move to a smaller place and can’t take our huge collections with us

CDs but I would cry if I had to give up my records. I've got lots of both and really can't say which sounds better but one of them is definitely easier (too bad the art work is so small and it's housed in plastic). 

If the digital source were limited to CDs I'd probably choose vinyl.  Between vinyl and high-res downloads I am not so sure.

Playing the downloads on my Aurender is so convenient, and the SQ so high it is a strong contender, but the sense of "being there" that pure analog playback gives might be the deciding factor.  I have about 3,000 LPs and all but a handful are analog recordings.