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To be fair, the mechanical characteristics of a record deck, the tone arm and the cartridge combined with the minor electronic process that decompresses the wav
by bdfh42 17y ago
To be fair, the mechanical characteristics of a record deck, the tone arm and the cartridge combined with the minor electronic process that decompresses the wave forms across different frequencies mean that a vinyl recording is bound to sound subtly different to a digital source even if both are created from the same original recording. If that is interpreted as "warmer" then one has to accept that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
- warfangle 17y agoThe other reason, of course, is the Loudness Wars. Older records were not mastered hot to stand out in juke boxes or on the radio, and thus had an actual dynamic range (instead of everything just being LOUD). Ultimately ended up being higher quality recordings for it, too. Only a few people ask for a high dynamic range nowadays (like Porcupine Tree). Everyone else gets mastered up to 11.