I've been hearing Further on vinyl since I got it a month back. I just set up my old sony system and moved my vinyl player out of my room - just popped in the album on cd the first time on the same new system in my room where I've been hearing the vinyl, on the same EQs and volumes, and the cd mix sounds much cleaner - Snow and EV are very gritty n dirty on the vinyl - there are much harsher layers on the 12" - also much louder - it can't be just the vinyl sound, the difference is quite a bit.

Are they two different masters?

If that's the case I need to buy a record player, love how gritty ev is when you have a non-coachella version. You sure the record player seamy need a new needle or something?

Biff, on 05 July 2010 - 12:33 AM, said:

yeah, with vinyl is a different matter.. In general, audio journals and technicians say that there should be no difference in sound between vinyl and CD, but I think to myself: there is. I have a turntables, and the sound from them is always better thant that of the PC (mp3, flac and so on..).. Some say it's because of a sample rate.. Cause vinyl is sampled on more frequency (48.000 KHz, to compare to CD's 44.000 KHz..) Who knows..

i think its pretty safe to assume that when you mastering an album you would make separate masters for the cd and the vinyl seeing as the process is all about making the sound the best it can be for a format.

and vinyl does not have a sampling frequency, its an analogue format not digital!!

I just heard Horse Power and Swoon from the Vinyl, my mate played it on a community radio station he DJ's on. I heard differences on both tracks to the cd versions. Am I imagining things? The quality of what I heard wasn't that good cause it was shoutcast at 64k.