Vinyl Vs Cd Double Blind Test

We compare the sound quality of analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac on a 100k stereo setup.

Vinyl vs cd double blind test.

Brad meyer and david moran of the boston audio society ran a large scale experiment of the audibility of a cd standard a d a loop inserted in to a sacd dvd audio chain. The cd versus vinyl debate and by extension the debate over digital versus analog sound has only grown. I mean we have many examples where we do double blind tests and some of the competitors are very expensive but they don t sound very good because i think it. The second is being able to recognize differences between cd quality and higher resolutions.

You can find the study here. The results may surprise you as they did us. There are two issues here. Analog vinyl vs digital audio cd flac sound quality comparison analog vs digital sound quality test results.

See our youtube debate. 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. Search out the best sounding transfer of your favorite recordings across multiple platforms and enjoy the experience. Let s take them one at a time.

In a double blind test can anyone recognize better than cd quality. 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. Check out our listening results. Why vinyl sounds better than cd.