L.A. Guns rocker Tracii Guns agrees with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page about his stance on vinyl records and CDs.
A music page on X shared a quote from Page about the use of vinyl records and his comparison of CDs. Page had said:
“I’ve never stopped listening to vinyl. I was very disappointed when the CDs came out because I didn’t like the way they sounded. So much was lost with CDs, and then MP3s, they took away much of the depth. The album’s not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.”
A user replied to Page’s statement, saying that they disagreed. They explained why:
“I disagree. CD’s sounded better. MP3’s are great. Never go back to vinyl. I miss the days of vinyl just not the actual vinyl.”
As a response, the original GN’R rocker defended Page and wrote:
“Vinyl reproduces 99.9 percent of the frequencies from the original recording, harmonic distortion and nearly unlimited volume without being painful. The Sample rate of WAV files on a CD can never reproduce the intended result of the recording. CDs are only more convenient.”
Vinyl Records Sound ‘Warmer’
Page compared vinyl records to CDs many times before. In an interview with Record Collector Magazine, the Led Zeppelin rocker was asked if he ever listened to an entire Led Zeppelin album in one sitting. He admitted listening to it when he needed to hear something but not stopping the record after he was done, simply because there was ‘so much to listen to.’ He then explained why it was better to listen to records on vinyl:
“Vinyl just sounds so bloody good, doesn’t it? We knew it all along when they started doing CDs and you knew that the sampling rate was really crap. Well, we knew that gives it this thin sound, and everyone was saying it. My record collection was stored away for ages and I’m actually unpacking it in the film. But when I put on all these old records, they just don’t sound like that on CD, and I don’t know whether that’s just nostalgia. No, I actually think that the music sounds better and warmer on a record.”
You can see Tracii Guns’ response to Page’s stance below.
— Tracii ⨁ 🇺🇸🇩🇰 (@TraciiGuns) May 8, 2024
Vinyl reproduces 99.9 percent of the frequencies from the original recording, harmonic distortion and nearly unlimited volume without being painful. The Sample rate of wav files on a cd can never reproduce the intended result of the recording. CDs are only more convenient.
— Tracii ⨁ 🇺🇸🇩🇰 (@TraciiGuns) May 9, 2024
