Dr_Jones wrote:I'll tell you a secret: that's why vinyl was replaced by CDs in the 80s...
I'll tell you another secret: vinyl doesn't have the same mastering issues that CD can, meaning it'll end up sounding better automatically if your digital master is brickwalled to hell.
Seriously, if CDs today were mastered like the early West Germany pressings of JMJ's stuff, then I don't think the vinyl resurgence would've been more than a novelty. Still, I think there is an authentic appeal to the sound, even with all its flaws. So I wouldn't be that dismissive of the format. Just quality of your record pressings and turntables.
Velodynamic wrote:It's unfortunate you have to eat tin can sound mixing no matter how you choose to listen to the album.
Or in Oldfieldian; "brick wall squashing"]
Maybe it's the fancy vinyl rips I've listening to, but I still think there is more life to it on vinyl still with the way it's mastered. Anything is better than the CD really.