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 DAT's and vinyls and CDs |
Posted by Eliot Jacob
on Wednesday 13 June 2007, 10:02PM
Fair enough didn't know that. I thought a CD was only 320 and that a vinyl is basically 778 KBps because its recorded from DAT. How could a cd be better quality then what they record vinyl off? surely people would record onto vinyl from CD then? not trying to have a girly row online, just ignorant yet interested in that side of music.
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| CD versus Vinyl - data rates |
by Chris Withers
on Sunday 15 July 2007 @11:17AM
Okay, well, as I said, a CD is actually 1411kb/sec. If you don't believe me, rip a track off a CD to iTunes in WAV format and see what it tells you the bit rate is ;-)
I have no idea where your 778 figure for vinyl comes from. Records can be mastered from any number of sources of different qualities. Think back ot the vinyl pressed in the 60's and 70's , or eve nthe old 78rpm records that were pressed before them. They certainly didn't come from digital sources, so a "kb/sec" figure is pretty meaningless for them.
A CD can be better quality that a vinyl source for any number of reasons. The vinyl mastering process could have started from a shit quality MP3 or damaged analogue tape. Even the mastering process itself can be shoddy leaving a poor quality pressing - god knows I've got a few obscure white labels where that's the case!
As for "recording onto vinyl from CD", I'd be extremely surprised if the most common form of master given to a vinyl plant nowadays wasn't a CDR containing the final mix of the tune ;-)
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