Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler thoughts on this new HD vinyl

I am still not convinced that vinyl is inherently better than digital (although it may be better than CD after jumping through the filtering hoops you need to avoid aliasing around half the too-low sampling frequency).

For me what vinyl gives is recordings that were mixed for serious listening on a good system in a quiet room or with headphones, not dumbed down for driving on the highway or listening with earbuds on a crowded bus.

Unfortunately history is littered with bands that came along at the wrong time and released recordings that sounded awesome on a good system but crappy on AM radio. I grew up in Toronto so FM and Zon are the most obvious examples, but there are a lot more.