Modern Vinyl Records Quality

Best sounding albums to own on vinyl.

Modern vinyl records quality.

Reissues is a recurrent topic among vinyl junkies. Dual 180g black vinyl discs in cut out gatefold. Most new us vinyl i ve picked up in the last couple of years is noisy many records look battered when you take them out the sleeve. Back in the day making records was an industrial process with millions and millions of records.

The output of a record player is analog. Most dvd players only have a 96khz. Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made. I d say the quality of vinyl itself is just as good if not even better than back in the day processing however has gone down the drain especially in the us.

With the coming of modern age one would think that vinyl records were dead truth is they re all but dead. Of course playing your favorite tracks on your iphone or your favorite mixtape on your pc laptop is convenient but most audiophiles can agree on one thing playing your music on record players is the best way to hear your music. This means that no information is lost. In fact simply because vinyl was kept alive primarily by audiophiles we saw more audiophile records being made.

Big fragile records real liner notes covers you want to frame and hang on your wall and of course the magical way the. A quality reissue can offer a great alternative to owning a scratchy original or spending big money on something scarce. That said many factors help determine whether you ve purchased a good or bad pressing of a record. In brief an engineer such as gonsalves receives mixed recordings from the studio or even a band s laptop.

A vinyl record has a groove carved into it that mirrors the original sound s waveform. The best part of vinyl isn t the sound. To take advantage of higher quality dvd audio discs however you will need a dvd player with a 192khz 24 bit digital to analog converter. That s quite an accomplishment but shouldn t surprise fans of deutsche gramaphone s modern records.

It s the entire experience. The sound quality throughout is modern and precise without succumbing to brittleness.