White Album Better on Vinyl?

[michelej1]

This is an excerpt from an article about retro music making a comeback

http://www.flatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dl...710280310/1005

Plenty of fans still love their vinyl albums, retro tapes

Fred Migliore, whose free-form radio show FM Odyssey on WFIT 89.5 FM is nationally syndicated, says more artists are trying to re-create that old-fashioned sound quality.

"A lot of people that are making CDs now are beginning to go back to recording them through original analog material," he says.

Even he will run CD music through old tube equipment to warm up the sound when he plays it on the radio.

"I'm not saying that I don't like the way CDs sound," Migliore says. "The majority of what I play is on CD."

But there are a lot of old albums that didn't make it to CD, he says, and some still sound better on vinyl -- for instance, the 1975 self-titled Fleetwood Mac album, which he used to take to stereo stores as a test record.

"That vinyl version from 1975 still outperforms anything you can put on CD," he says.

There are other things he loves about vinyl, his favorite format.

"When you get to be my age," he says, "I don't think I would have been able to appreciate 'Sgt. Pepper' from the Beatles if the cover of that album had been 5 by 5 inches."