45 Rpm Vinyl Vs 33 Rpm

Most turntables can play 33s and 45s while 78s require a certain kind of stylus and motor speed.

45 rpm vinyl vs 33 rpm. Beta to blu ray vs hd dvd companies have often put out competing formats. There is a limit to what the human ear can hear though and the hearable difference between 45 and 78 is pretty miniscule. My 0 02 i thought that 45 rpm would always be better and i was kind of pissed when i got radiohead kid a and it was 33rpm unlike the other 2 radiohead albums i have in vinyl but it sure sounded great at 33 rpm then i remembered although hail to the theif sounded amazing to me the bass was a little lacking in some tracks imo maybe it s harder to get powerful bass on 45rpm discs. 45 rpm is supposed to give better high frequency response and sound better but when i.

Now at 45 rpm s the same audio will take up a foot and a half since its traveling faster. 33 45 and 78 rpm represents the speed at which the record spins on your turntable. The 45 rpm records or vinyls sound as they were intended to sound when played at 45 revolutions per minute at the 45 setting on a record player while the 33 rpm records sound right at the 33. I can imagine that very high quality 45 s could sound really good but what about lower quality 45 s.

Technically 78 s would sound the best. Have any of you made 33 rpm vs. Like johnny vinyl i m selective. Format wars is nothing new in the audio and video department.

More recently i ve listened to a lot of the analogue productions 45 rpm jazz reissues comparing some of those to ap s 33 rpm reissues of the same recordings. I bought the stevie ray vaughan set in 33 1 3 partly for price but also because i don t like the break up in continuity. Lastly 78 would take up 3 feet. This means that for each second of playback more sound information goes from the stylus to your speakers at 45rpm than 33rpm.

The overall sonic differences between 33 and 45 rpm releases continue to hold true with the 45 rpm versions being clearly better in multiple ways. One minute of audio takes up one foot at 33 rpm s. The higher the rpm the faster the vinyl passes under the playback stylus. I have deep purple s perfect strangers album from 1984 on 33 rpm vinyl and i also have the perfect strangers maxi 12 single which has the title track on the a side and the ten minute long instrumental son of alerik on the b side.

I still don t really see how 45 s could sound better. I did spring for the ap 45 rpm tea for the tillerman but i only had the german pink island pressing. Rca which failed miserably in the 1930s to release a 33 to the public went out to release a 45 rpm. The record was smaller than the other options.

45 rpm comparisons of the same songs. Vinyl records sound better if they are cut at higher speeds. Vinyl records come in numerous speeds that impact playback and compatibility.