The Book Of Souls sounds so much better on vinyl (Videos)

[Earendil Ancient Mariner]

Finally The Book Of Souls arrived in Mexico... I just did these videos showing the audio and definitely the audio of the vinyl is a huge improvement over the CD, it's clearer and less muddy, even with youtube compression...

Edit: The videos were taken down by youtube... but I just uploaded them on Vimeo

 

[Brigantium]

Some of the guitar in the final chorus(es) of Eternity is much clearer. It sounded very understated on the CD.

 

[Batman]

And that's why I'll buy at some point in time all their recordings on vinyl.

 

[Gk1]

Most new tracks would be killer live. And a potential new live album could do them justice soundwise. Same way En Vivo! did to TFF songs.

 

[Caveman Ninja]

Wow, no kidding! The mastering is so much better. I've got the vinyl sitting at my girlfriend's house, haven't played it yet. Looking forward to it now.

 

[Forostar]

That bass!

 

[frus]

These recordings sound much more mid-scooped than the CD version that I'm comparing them to.
Which leads me to this question: if you digitalize the vinyl, then the sound depends on your phono preamp, possibly on some eq you may have, as well as A/D converter

I mean, it's not unambiguous as the CD (which is a stream of bits) ?

 

[srfc]

sounds great!

I don't have a record player right now, will need to hurry up and buy a replacement

EDIT: is there guitar fills at the last chours of IESF that aren't on the cd?

 

[Caveman Ninja]

Don't think so. It's just that the mastering on the CD is absolutely bollocks so you can't really hear them.

 

[Brigantium]

They're there, but very understated. I thought that was a deliberate feature of production, but maybe not.

 

[Earendil Ancient Mariner]

These recordings sound much more mid-scooped than the CD version that I'm comparing them to.
Which leads me to this question: if you digitalize the vinyl, then the sound depends on your phono preamp, possibly on some eq you may have, as well as A/D converter

I mean, it's not unambiguous as the CD (which is a stream of bits) ?

The turntable is connected to an Aiwa receiver and the audio output is connected to the laptop where I record it with Audacity, but I don't make any alterations to the audio, it's .wav at 24bit...

 

[frus]

OK, but Aiwa receiver itself may have some EQ? I'm asking because the difference is... staggering (sounds much better on your video than on CD in my opinion)

 

[TheSpectreWithin]

The vinyl is noticeably better. I finally listened to my copy last night, and the lead guitar is far cleaner and sits better in the mix. Definitely worth the purchase.

 

[srfc]

Is it correct that it was mastered by a different guy than the CD master?

 

[Earendil Ancient Mariner]

OK, but Aiwa receiver itself may have some EQ? I'm asking because the difference is... staggering (sounds much better on your video than on CD in my opinion)

I don't think it has EQ, it's the tape rec audio output...

 

[Earendil Ancient Mariner]

Is it correct that it was mastered by a different guy than the CD master?

Yes, in the credits it says that there was an additional vinyl mastering by Chris Bellman...

 

[frus]

I don't think it has EQ, it's the tape rec audio output...

Then it's definitely much better

 

[The Flash]

Vinyl is better than CD every time, unless the vinyl mixing has been fucked up. It's a dream of mine to have a vinyl collection but I can't afford it.

 

[mckindog]

I ordered my Book of Souls vinyl yesterday.

 

[Gk1]

Could it be then that the 320 K mp3s out of a vinyl would sound better than the ones taken from the CD?