ipod vs vinyl - really?

 

I played original vinyl as well as repress and almost without exception, the tune came out clearer  from the ipod every time.  Clean signal, reliable player (not having to depend on my turntables which had not been put away properly by the previous user), thousands of tunes in my pocket - that wins the arguyment for me.  The vinyl sounded rough by comparison.  Lots of people whinge on about how vinyl sounds better and has wider frequency range - not always reflected in how it sounds.  Vinyl - poor quality pressings and vinyl, not to mention scratches and cracks - you are not guranteed good sound quality.

 

I have been backing up my vinyl onto CD since CD recorders became available and so most of what is on my ipod has come direct from my vinyl shelves - glad I did now.  Recorded through my NAD amp and separate CD recorder, my tunes sound criss....wherever i go.....

FLAC is 1411 i think, being lossless and all 

 

even worse for ipods then!

 

i only use high quality WAVS but ill have to start using flac if there that high quality,    ive got some but cant find a decent player,  the flac codecs for windows media and real player never work.

joshd963 wrote: ipod quality isnt that amazing..

better than any other portable mp3 player, hence the price

 

rich_gale wrote: vinyl would have sounded better to you before you became acustomed to teh over compressed, over limter digital recordings available to ipod users.  vinyl is actually higher fidelity (if cut well), but sounds different (and less hifi) to an ear that is acustomed to digital 'loudness war' victims.  I have good vinyl and bad vinyl.  the bad vinyl sounds worse than a bad mp3, but a good vinyl kills 99% of good mp3's in terms of dynamics, energy and overall niceness.