Vinyl or CD? which do you prefer collecting?

[chadmbrock]

I've always been a sucker for Vinyl...

There is just something about standing over the turntable trying to kept up with the roatation as you stare at the label!!

 

[Miltbrand]

Vinyl has a better sound! The sound on a cd is often too clean and clinical. Atleast when it comes to stuff from the 80s I try to get it all on vinyl.
Unfortunately, when I started listening to metal I didn´t feel that way, so now I have to search around alot to get the stuff I want. So I only own around 200 lp´s compared to about 700 cd´s.....

 

[PyroVesten]

Vinyl. Better art, better sound.

Yes, there are exceptions to this rule. A vinyl that has been pressed from a digital master is useless, so is artwork that hasn't been created originally at a size suitable for Vinyl at at least 225dpi but a nice analogue master and quality mix means, plus artwork with forethought means that vinyl sounds SO much better (especially through a great pair of headphones).

I've got about 70 LPs and 500 CDs but my vinyl numbers are catching up.

 

[powerwolve]

i prefer cds, but there are some must have vinyl.
but i am also collecting tapes!
like the INDIANS single Tape

 

[spacebeer]

Vinyl hasn;t got better sound that's just a myth....it has far more limited frequency range than CD's which make em sound "warmer" to our ears...but no they are inferior soundwise!

 

[karrokid]

i've always liked vinyl. it takes me back in time to when i first started buying music (kiss alive 2). i recently started collecting again. i'm working on the doors catalog right now. i enjoy the impoted stuff with different covers and song arrangement like the early ac/dc stuff. the computer based recording programs are getting a bad rap because every musician with a couple grand has the stuff but few people can actually engineer a good sounding recording (me included lol).

 

[spacebeer]

True but that has nothing to do with Vinyl or CD, a lot of vinyls end of the 80's were also recorded digitally....

 

[DiscipleOfThePit]

Vinyl hasn;t got better sound that's just a myth....it has far more limited frequency range than CD's which make em sound "warmer" to our ears...but no they are inferior soundwise!

LIES!

 

[spacebeer]

NO lies my friend.....and I am not a liar

 

[karrokid]

i do a lot of recording and, i'll agree it's a lot easier now and you can get some great sounding stuff digitaly. my comment about computer based programs was meaning don't give digital recording a bad rap because you hear some projects from people producing and mixing that don't know their ass from a whole in the ground. that st. anger album is a bad example earlier. thats just a cluster fuck from start to finish by all parties involved. i think bob rock got caught up in the fantasy that he was in metallica. as a producer he should have had more common sence than producing/mixing that piece of shit the way it was. long live digital and i love vinyl for collecting.

 

[damon505]

vinyl to collect, cd to listen