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Label: VSP - VSPS-13 • Format: Vinyl LP, Compilation Simulated Stereo • Country: US • Genre: Jazz • Style: Bop

Still, as artists and labels hop on the vinyl trend, some new vinyl releases may be mastered from CD-quality audio, not the high-resolution formats audiophiles and folks like Neil Young adore.

Is a CD-quality album going to sound more accurate on vinyl than a CD? But it will sound more vinyl-y, if that's your preference. Vinyl's capable of a lot, but only if the grooves are wide enough for the needle to track them properly.

A longer album means skinnier grooves, a quieter sound and more noise. Likewise, the ear-rattling sounds of dubstep weren't really meant for your turntable. Vinyl can struggle with highs and lows: High-pitched frequencies drum cymbals, hi-hats and sibilance think "s" sounds can cause the ugly crackle of distortion, while deep bass panned between the left and right channels can knock around the needle.

Otherwise, "that's a hard path for a needle to trace. The beginning of an album side sounds better than the end: As the album's circumference shrinks toward the middle, the needle speed changes and it can't follow every millimeter of the groove. If the song that closes side A or B is a complicated one — say, one with a busy harmonica solo — it may well sound less than hi-fi.

That's why those double-LPs are worth the extra flipping. Surface noise: "The warm sound of the vinyl, that's a form of noise that you get from dealing with the lacquer material and having it go through this manufacturing process," Gonsalves said. The vinyl format can generate other issues: crackles and pops, records that skip and the whine of a needle against the LP, all problems that the CD advertised itself on solving decades ago.

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The remaster sounds fantastic, but the forthcoming version promises to truly bring the record into the 21st century. Easily one of the best albums released since the turn of the century, Amy Winehouse's Back to Black captures her soon-to-be LP) life in amber.

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Alex Chilton makes you want to drive down a freeway in a top-down Cadillac, while the album's penultimate song, Skyway, predicted the coming of Wilco and alt-country. Will Oldham has had a long career under many names, most involving the word "palace", but Viva Last Blues is one of his most memorable efforts. Steve Albini engineered the record specifically to be heard on vinyl, and songs Cherokee - Various - Piano Modern (Vinyl as the creepy Tonight's Decision And Hereafter will stick with you.

Yes, we could have chosen any one of Kraftwerk's '70s records but Man-Machine loses the meandering approach of other albums in favor of actual songs, even "hits" The Model.

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