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How good is the quality of newly reissued vinyl of old material? I'm not making comparisons to digital or CD versions but to old vinyl issues. The reason is tha
by squarefoot 5y ago
How good is the quality of newly reissued vinyl of old material? I'm not making comparisons to digital or CD versions but to old vinyl issues. The reason is that I heard from multiple sources that new vinyl records quality isn't on par with original ones. Did anyone experience that? If true, might it be related to new records being printed off a mastering copy that was intended for CDs?
- philistine 5y agoI know one recent example: Billie Eilish's record was supposed to sound bad on vinyl because it was not mastered for the format. If it happened to her, I'm sure it happens all the time.
- squarefoot 5y agoThanks, I hope they don't sound like many records from the mid-late 90s whose duration was aligned to the CD version, around 1 hour, and therefore the print had to reduce significantly the grooves width and space between them to fit the material on a single record. This was accomplished also by lowering the sound level, therefore ruining the already not great signal to noise ratio of that media.