What albums, in your opinion, sound unquestionably better on Vinyl rather than Digital?

 All the Moody Blues Albums

Team212

Carly Simon's Anticipation sounds better on vinyl than MoFi SACD.
I've got a supposedly audiophile Japanese import of Bobby Darin's "That's All". The "Mack The Knife" cut has a lot of over-modulation or some such gunk. The best version of the song I've found so far is on a CD collection, probably because the gunk is less obvious in lo-fi. Other than that, the only albums that I have both a CD and vinyl version of are because the vinyl has been abused.

I have another one:


12 bit blues by Kid Koala.

Some of the issues with digital releases have just recently been highlighted with the much anticipated release of the Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society super deluxe box. Some fans were hoping to finally get a digital version that at least matched the original UK vinyl release for sound.

Instead they got a 5CD box with frustratingly similar compressed sound to previous recent CD releases. Even last years Sgt Pepper remix, which sounded good otherwise, was afflicted in this manner.

For whatever reason, the industry just cannot bring themselves to delivering top quality sound on prestige re-releases. Either they can’t or else they don’t want to. When you consider how often certain titles have been re-issued you might think they would eventually get it right, but no.

A cynic might argue that if they did then that would end any potential for future exploitation of that particular title.
But of course, there’s nothing cynical about the music industry, is there?

Red House, Mapleshade, and New West sell very well made CDs, although the artists are quite an eclectic group. Greg Brown's on Red House are especially good. I have not had the opportunity to compare the same releases on vinyl; but New West does vinyl as well as digital.