
Vinyl or digital? It’s a loaded question to which the answer changes drastically depending upon the individual it is directed toward. Audiophiles have their arguments teed up, ready to fly through the air in an accusatory barrage.
“Records contain an analog copy of sound pressed into vinyl in the shape of the original sound wave. Digital music files are merely the waveform of the original sound transformed into a stream of ones and zeroes,” an analog purist might begin.
The digital advocate would logically rebut with “digital recordings contain at least 40,000 samples or snapshots per second so we can accurately reconstruct the original, continuous analog waveform up to the limits of human hearing (frequencies up to 20,000 Hz).”
“Vinyl has an intangible fullness subtly missing from music streamed from the cloud,” the purist returns.
“But digital is so much more convenient.”
“But vinyl is so much cooler.”
Both sides make cogent arguments, but what if there were a way to have your record and stream it, too?
Burntable co-founder Aaron Peterson believes Analog vs. Digital is a false dichotomy.
Burntable is the world’s first dedicated site designed to ease the digital preservation of vinyl recordings.
With Burntable, artists and aficionados alike can upload their ultra-rare pressings to the site using a simple interface that preserves the integrity of an LP in a lossless format.
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