vinyl vs CD (1A)


 Vinyl records vs CDs


Advantages of CDs

  • It’s compact
  • Cd’s easier to store therefore less space will be needed.
  • More tracks available on cd
  • Easy to skip from track to track
  • Copies can be made
  • Cheaper to purchase
  • With CDs you can make your own music and burn it on to it.


Disadvantages of CDs

  • When burning the copy on to a CD it doesn’t always work because the computer could crash or the CD loses all the data.
  • You can’t use it on any other device than a computer or a CD player.
  • When you play the CD it can easily get scratched and the quality of the sound is taken away when transferred onto CD.
  • When music is copied onto the CD, it is not the original version, it is a remake.
  • A CD recording does not pick up all the sounds that a Vinyl recording would.


Advantages of Vinyl records

  • Vinyl uses less bandwidth than digital sound.
  • Vinyl records are more accurate as they pick up more sounds that a CD wouldn’t.
  • When listening to Vinyl it will be clear that you are listening to the original copy rather than something that has been edited etc


Disadvantages of Vinyl records

  • You can hear white noise.
  • If you make a recording on Vinyl you can’t get rid of white noise and the sound can be affected.
  • Once the recording is done on Vinyl, it can’t be reversed or edited out.
  • Tape is becoming expensive as not many people use it therefore there is not as much manufactured.

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