Records from the past were recorded with tape and analogue equipment and recorded on vinyl. It then went to digital recordings on CD with digital recording gear.
How are vinyl records of digital recordings better than CD’s?
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A lot of interesting answers here. I agree that technically any decent CD player will outperform any vinyl system.
One thing that is often forgotten is that music is mastered to suit the format it is likely going to be played on. It seems to me that a lot of the nostalgia for music from the 60’s and 70’s is due to this mastering as much as the actual format. Masters tended to have a more “spatial” feel and the modern “everything all at once and all at full” compression trend had not started. There were quiet bits in even the heaviest rock albums…
Perhaps I’m old.
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