Actually CDs and MP3/4s would sound better because #1- recording technology is better and #2- the stereos and headsets you can play them from don't lose much quality of music.
That's not true. The recording ability is better now, but MP3s are compressed music files. MP3s are based on the principle that the human brain can only process the loudest sound at any given milisecond, so it drops everything else to make a smaller file. As an example, if a song has a singer, drummer, bassist and keyboard all playing at the same time, it only keeps the loudest for each milisecond and deletes the others. We can't tell unless there is a prolonged period of only one loud sound, but the process is so amazing it sounds almost exactly the same as the original performance.
Vinyl are so large because they keep intact the entire preformance (similar to what .wav files do). This allows for different speakers to play different instruments. So technically if you are a true audiophile, vinyl can sound incredible. Imagine if you have your speakers set up to enhance all the instruments at the same time, and you listened to an original beatles recording!
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You can do the same thing with uncompressed audio files. Since most songs nowadays (excluding live) are recorded in separate parts, all you have to do is set each separately recorded instrument to play on a different speaker, and just sit in the middle. Of course, this does have to count on the fact that you'll have to find the uncompressed song file, but it will give you a broader variety of songs since the vast majority of songs are no longer on Vinyl. And regarding the Beatles, it would of course sound better on the original vinyl because when it is converted to MP3/4, some of the background noise is lost because the software detects it as unnecessary, and sometimes that can cause a loss in quality. (That's why old songs don't sound very good through headphones)
What is this measuring? Time spent in each media? Money spent on each media? The amount of total ownership? The amount of yearly accrual? Popular preference? What a specific person owns?Statistics without definitions can mean anything and therefore are worthless.
Vinyl are so large because they keep intact the entire preformance (similar to what .wav files do). This allows for different speakers to play different instruments. So technically if you are a true audiophile, vinyl can sound incredible. Imagine if you have your speakers set up to enhance all the instruments at the same time, and you listened to an original beatles recording!
Also, HOW DID THIS GIF GO ON FOR SO LONG?!?!?