CD versus Vinyl - data rates


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CD versus Vinyl - data rates

Posted by Chris Withers on Sunday July 15, @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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