WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
How do you prefer to listen to music – on downloaded mp3 files, on CD, on vinyl? On vinyl, you may say – are you kidding? Nope, vinyl is making a comeback, and audiophiles claim that’s because vinyl sounds better. Does it?
Listen up and see what you think.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
So what’s the fastest growing music distribution format these days? If you answered vinyl, you’re absolutely right, even though vinyl still only accounts for about 1% of music sales. But what’s going on – isn’t vinyl dead? Apparently not, and its proponents say that’s because the sound of vinyl is superior to CDs and certainly to mp3 and other compressed formats.Is that true? Well, if you look at the physics…