What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital?


So this is not an effort to start a medium-war thread, rather in my view some records just seem to be mastered better on the vinyl record version than the digital version. Three that spring to mind from my record collection:

  • Henri Texier - Varech
  • Tom Misch - Geography
  • JLin - Black Origami (this very surprisingly to me)


I know everyone’s system is different, everyone’s ears are different and everyone’s tastes are different, but for the purposes of this discussion let us assume that YOU are the final arbiter of objective reality!
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bassdude....you are completely correct. So many factors come into play when comparing the quality of sound between digital and analog. When the digital explosion came about a few decades ago many were excited about the convenience and relatively low cost of playing the medium (CD's). I was also taken in by that innovation.

Today with so many advancements in digital playback with high quality DAC's, streaming, and others there has never been a more plentiful basket of options. Equipment has evolved so far from the original CD format. Sure, it's very convenient to play music in the digital medium for long listening sessions than to walk over to the turntable or tape machine to change more often than one would like.

The original post was to ask if the same recording would sound best with digital or analog. It would only be a fair comparison if the recording was played on the same system. But, this is where the comparison would be skewed on way or another.

A lot of people have equipment that can play both digital and analog. But most of those have systems and setups that would be more supportive of one over the other. Sounds like an experiment for someone with high quality setups with both. Then there's the human ear factor.

I have digital recordings that sound better than their analog counterparts. Mostly due to the age and use of vinyl. So......it's a comparison that can be only one to one. Plus the human factor.

I love  Hope by Hugh Masekela.

Just can't understand how the finesse of a fine audio system makes Black Sabbath better.  But maybe I just need to try it.
More appropriate question could be - Which cds sound closest to records ?
Of what I heard, Cielo e Terra by Al Di Meola and Siroco by Paco de Lucia. Both analog recordings but the latter was digitally mastered. Still, it is quite a distance from vinyl. For the rest the distance is ridiculous.
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Like others have posted, ALL OF THEM. 

When you use algorithms to remove every x bit from the stream to save time and space, you prevent the entire recording from being recoreded and played back, even if the codec is supposed to "replace" those bits.

Listen to "electronic" drums or a "chip" Hammond B-3.  Then listen to the real instruments.  If you cannot tell the difference, then go with digital and be happy.  This is not to say that electronic drums and fake B-3's don't have a specific sound and have a place in creating music for those who wish that sound.  They simply do not SOUND like the actual instruments, period, so go with what you personally prefer.  Just don't believe that "digital" instruments or recordings sound the same as the ones they are trying to copy.  They don't.