Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again
by anamexis on Friday June 30, 2017 @06:20PM
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The loudness war was directly related to CDs becoming popular.
"...because of the limitations of the vinyl format, loudness and compression on a released recording were restricted to make the physical medium playable—restrictions that do not exist on digital media such as CDs—and as a result, increasing loudness levels never reached the significance that they have in the CD era."
"...because of the limitations of the vinyl format, loudness and compression on a released recording were restricted to make the physical medium playable—restrictions that do not exist on digital media such as CDs—and as a result, increasing loudness levels never reached the significance that they have in the CD era."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war