This is quite possibly the first post I have ever read on the internet that mentioned the RIAA with a positive tone.
For others, here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again
by marcosdumay on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:20PM
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I was very surprised when I discovered it :)
Looks like they used to develop all kinds of tech for sound record and playback.
They threw them out because they’re just there to compensate for specific distortion in the analog vinyl medium. As far as I understand the riaa equalization in your phonograph is just to undo the premphasis put there when it was mastered. It’s completely unneeded in digital audio.
At the time of vinyl, the RIAA had standards on how to process the sound. Those were good standards. On the move to digital we threw them away, and nowadays some companies go into the cheapest route, some go into the best benchmarks route, and nearly no company tries to release a system that sounds good anymore.
But vinyl systems still have to follow the RIAA standards, otherwise they'll get completely distorted.