Vinyl Rips You've Done That Are Better Than The Actual CD

Picked this up today cheap at a flea market:



Figured I'd "upgrade" from the rip I did 10 years ago.......wrong.
Better highs & clarity on my homemade disc.

Others?

 

I've lost count.

Keep in mind that I also have CD rips that sound better than the CD as well, it's not mutually exclusive to vinyl rips.

 

12 inch singles that are only released as digital compressed abominations
For some it may be easier to do a good transfer of an lp where the cd equivalent has pre-emphasis, -OMD Architecture & Morality, every pre-remaster has it, and then this one-

 

Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal. The CD has the double problem of early loudness war (tinny) and noise reduction. Aside from a bit of inner groove distortion during Kandy Korn, my vinyl rip breathes life.

 

All vinyl rips I made of titles which (imho) are better mastered on vinyl are better (to my ears) than the actual CDs. I also have vinyl records that are mastered worse than the CDs. I love both formats, by the way

 

Lou Reed's New York. It always sounded dull on cd. Maybe the first album where I noticed the vinyl was superior.

 

I don't see any point even doing this unless it's going to be better than the CD.

 

Nice . It's the high end that's crisp on vinyl, and dull on the cd.

 

It's a poor mastering on CD IMHO and I quite agree that the vinyl blows away the CD. Sadly that included the newly released boxed set. I haven' t neard Ludwig's latest HD transfer yet.

 

Would not, everyone's definition or at least idea of what constitutes better, factor into this mostly?

 

Running the ripped cd files through SoX de-emphasis solves that problem. I've heard a few needledrops that bested the CD releases due to poor mastering for the CD release or a brickwalled remaster.

 

"I'm Your Man", Leonard Cohen. The original CD issue sounds out of focus compared to the LP. My burnt CD, needle dropped 44.1/24, then down sampled to 16 bit, sounds much better than the original CD. Not as good as the LP, not that I'm surprised. Still, as good a demonstration of the importance of mastering as any other.

 

I don't necessarily love em' (as I edit them out when I can), but I have some drops I've been listening to for so long that if the occasional click & pop weren't there it wouldn't sound right to me.

 

Since the Rock Candy Label screwed up the Head East Live album I made my own needledrop from a near mint Japanese LP that was pressed on JVC super vinyl for A&M Japan. Yes, you can see right through it when you hold it up to a light just like the old Mobile Fidelity LP's.

It sounds way better.

 

JWB's rips/remasters of the 13th Floors Elevators' catalog trump the shiddy Charly versions....

 

My needledrop of the White Stripes' Icky Thump is far better than the CD. Our host mastered the vinyl which sounds great, the CD is a brickwalled mess.

 

I wish great masterings were universal for all formats of a title. Another reason, as a CD listener I feel I'm getting the shaft. New titles with better vinyl mastering than their CD counterparts. Perhaps the folks in charge think only the vinyl purchasers will care about DR and that CD listeners will more likely have a crappy system that needs brickwall compensation.

 

Ditto for the rest of their catalog.

 

Every single one.

 

Exile In Guyville by a wide margin. Once you've heard the vinyl rip you can't ever go back to the trash cd.

 

I don't do them myself,but I have many from some of the best the Internet has to offer.IMO if a CD sounds great the needledrop sounds the same but warmer or less punchy.On other occasions like Zappa ,the ND blows the Cd out of the water in all aspects.Again..to my ears.

 

My drop of the Whispers "Bingo" murders the Unidisc CD. The original LP is far clearer. Unidisc does some truly terrible work.

Ed

 

I agree. And this is a particularly sad case. This is one of my very favorite records. I bought the original vinyl new. Even the original vinyl sounded like crap. I mean this has gotta be one of the worst recorded GREAT records of all time. The idea that this already terrible sounding gem could be and is actually made WORSE with the digital age is just a plain disgrace.

 

I use the Dynamic Range Database to get some info on a release. It helps sometimes.

 

I've had great success using a good CD analog recorder with Super Bit Mapping (SBM). Fleetwood Mac (recent Grundman Studio vinyl) and Nevermind (ORG vinyl) are two I've done that beat (IMO) the CDs.