Also that people would still be listening for many years to come (and they are!). Old vinyl records were cut with the mindset that listeners would pay attention to, and appreciate the nuances of the music and the sound. It sounds like total crap, and users change playlist content as often as they change underwear (probably more often in some cases). And they've achieved their goals very well. Mindset is also that the content will be replaced by new content tomorrow, as trends blow by at lighting speed. Easy data portability over the internet is king importance.

Spotify is entirely designed around the concept that listeners do not care what the audio sounds like, and often what the music sounds like. Two different worlds, sonically and philosophically. When listening the vinyl Black Sabbath Vol.4 felt as frightening as ever and on Spotify all the danger was gone and it sounded like listening a children lullaby instead.ĭo the test and let me know what you think.ĭo the test and let me know what you think.Given that most people are on the free Spotify tier, YouTube is actually higher sound quality in HD.Ĭan't compare. So no wonder kids today don't seem to care about the classic albums as at least to me they seem to lack most of the energy and emotion when listening from YouTube and Spotify. Spotify as digital sound in general sounded that level, color and pitch were there but strangely Ozzy and David among others didn't seem to have emotion or 'facial expression' at all when comparing to vinyl.

YouTube sound was so horrible that it shouldn't even be mentioned. Listening to Black Sabbath, The Beatles, David Bowie, Bad Company and others turned out a bigger adventure than we thought.Īs always sound is a matter of taste and some of the albums compared were remastered versions as original masters were not available online. So while at it we figured to compare the sound of Spotify with vinyl.

Last night we set up our old vinyl player not to control room but living room to check some classic albums. Maybe this has been covered, but those of you have vinyl players have you compared the sound of Spotify etc to vinyl? Like playing the same song from both medias and switching back and forth with matched levels.

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