good-digital-beats

Good digital beats bad analog any day of the week. Here are some examples in which the CD is far superior to a particular sub-standard pressing.

The world is full of bad sounding records, some of the worst of which were pressed on Heavy Vinyl in the last few decades.

It should be obvious that audiophiles are much better off listening to a good sounding compact disc than a bad sounding analog record.

Girls Girls Girls – Skip It on Vinyl (But Get the Brilliant 2 CD Set)

More of the Music of Elvis Costello

Years ago we had a British Import Demon Records 2 LP set that sounded decent — better sound than you’d find on any domestic copy — and the songs, spanning the period from 1976 to 1986, are GREAT! 

But the CD has much better sound than any vinyl I have yet to hear.

Buy the CD, it’s one of the best compilations — of any artist’s music — I know of.

(more…)