A year or so ago, I was cleaning out my crawlspace when I came across several milk crates of my old albums. My sons asked what they were, having never seen a record before. After telling them what they were, they looked at me kind of funny and asked how we played albums in the car! ROFL!!!
So I took out my old Micro Seiki turntable and told them to pick an album for me to play. God bless 'em, they chose Pink Floyd's "The Wall." Before playing it, I ran it through my record washer then put it on the turntable.
First I played "Run Like Hell" from my CD collection. Then I played "Run Like Hell" on the album.
Both agreed the album sounded better. Why? The low bass rumble on the album that's not present on the CD.
Some things you just cannot re-create digitally.
It’s all about how a CD is mastered, and when. Many CDs from the 80’s have a tinny low-bass sound, in my experience. But a CD from a modern band who recorded/mastered with vinyl in mind usually sounds great.
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I like this response. I’ve always had a theory that this goes to a bigger concept that music sounds optimum when played in its original medium, because that’s what it was engineered for. “Born To Run” was engineered for vinyl - not cassette, not CD, not digital. Now, take “The Rising” - it was made when digital technology was mainstream, so it’s gonna sound a lot better on CD or MP3 than on some silly vinyl re-issue.
It’s kind of like European disdain for our beer. Most Americans like extremely cold beer, so domestic beer is made to taste best when cold. Problem is, Europeans drink beer cool, not ice cold - so when they drink our beer at room temperature, it tastes like crap.
We kept an old rotary dial phone on the wall until the late 90s just to have fun with our kids' friends. They didn't have a clue how to phone Mom. It was priceless.
I always wondered how Sgt. Oddball was able to play music through his tank's loudspeaker in the era before magnetic tape recording. That tank had to have been rough on his record player. I was amazed it never skipped.
An album is a collection of something. It could be a collection of songs, a collection of pictures, etc. The media on which the collection is stored is irrelevant. If I have Sticky Fingers on vinyl, cassette and CD I have three albums, one of which is a vinyl album.