Advantages & Disadvantages of cd and vinyl

Advantages & Disadvantages  of cd and vinyl

Disadvantages 

• Vinyl is harder to maintain than CDs, and should ideally be stored in temperature- and humidity-controlled environments. (However, air conditioning, perhaps with a dehumidifier, is almost always sufficient.) Mold can grow on vinyl and may permanently damage it and its sleeve, and can spread from record to record.
• Vinyl is very easy to damage during playback. Any scraping of the surface can permanently compromise the sound quality.
• Surface noise, while often inaudible, will always be present and measurable, even on a brand new LP.
• The sound quality of a record cannot be determined until you play it, increasing the risk of the purchase. Even brand new, sealed LPs can have significant pressing and warping problems that may make it unusable for listening purposes.
• Certain parameters of vinyl recording and playback - notably, the vertical tracking angle (VTA) and the stylus rake angle (SRA) - were never formally standardized, and vary considerably between records. Distortion from these effects is generally considered extremely audible and very difficult (if not impossible) to correct.

Advantages

It isn't the LPs that are better than the CDs, not at all. CDs are technically far superior to LPs for reproducing sound. It's the music that was on the LPs that's better than the music that is on CDs nowadays.

CDs can reproduce sounds within 3 times the dynamic range of a CD. With far less distortion, much lower and also higher frequencies.

The cover artwork and the listening and care that goes along with listening to the analogue medium is also important as was already mentioned.

You take the recording home and normalize it, which means just making it as loud as possible without adding distortion. You listen to the recording on your good stereo in the living room and are very satisfied.