How about doing a blind test of a live band vs.
Vinyl vs cd blind test.
I am among those who prefer vinyl over digital for music reproduction despite vinyl s limitations as you have described them.
I decide to let the vinyl do the talking and set up a double blind test vinyl vs cd.
For a start if you make a digital recording using only 16 bits the bit depth of a cd then you have to leave at least four bits headroom to cope with unexpected peaks.
Why vinyl sounds better than cd.
I suspect the whole vinyl vs digital thing started in the early days of cds when for several reasons the quality of cd listening was nothing like it is today.
Now here s why a cd can come out on top.
Cd standard a d a loop analog signal into a 16 44 1 analog to digital converter that is then converted back to analog using a 16 44 1 dac.
Whenever i have new people over to the house for a listening session this discussion always comes up.
Unfortunately no one appears to have done a double blind listener test comparing vinyl to cds but there is a good study from florida state s john geringer and patrick dunnigan doing that with.
You can find the study here.
As i mentioned anything that was originally recorded for vinyl always wins the competition.
We re going to do a little listening test here guys.
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We have an lp and a cd of the same song.