White Album Better on Vinyl?

michelej1 · #1 10-28-2007, 12:56 PM

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."

Sarah · #2 10-28-2007, 06:05 PM

I definitely prefer it on vinyl. There really is something magical about the white album... I like to play it as it was intended to be heard.

Villavic · #3 10-28-2007, 08:18 PM

Mirage CD does suck. Vinyl album is far better

golddustwoman77 · #4 10-29-2007, 10:38 AM

I have an MFSL audiophile copy of the white album, and of course it sounds even better than the regular vinyl. I think vinyl sounds warmer and more real than CD anyway.

Sarah · #5 10-29-2007, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by golddustwoman77

I have an MFSL audiophile copy of the white album, and of course it sounds even better than the regular vinyl. I think vinyl sounds warmer and more real than CD anyway.

I have that one as well. It is awesome. I don't have a decent turntable anymore though.. just a junk one.. so I haven't played it in a while. I also have a white vinyl copy of the white album, but I haven't listened to it to see if there's any difference. I think it's probably just the same as the regular release, just a novelty version.

kenzo · #6 10-29-2007, 07:42 PM

I have the MFSL version and also the white vinyl version of the White Album.