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Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music by nine_k on Saturday August 03, 2019 @04:39PM (#20602534)
It's indeed compression, but not the mp3 / ogg / whatever compression.

It's the dynamic range compression [1] that makes everything louder, makes everything "pop" more, so there are no nuances left. This is, of course, a mixing / mastering step. But vinyl records of 60s-80s applied it much less than the CD records of 90s-2010s. Those who produce vinyls now still follow the tradition, and the customers expect it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Musi...

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Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music by NeedMoreTea on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:16AM (#20604928)
It got ridiculous in that I would buy vinyl because they were often mixed better, and differently, than CDs that for most of the late 90s-00s were too often a distorted over clipped wall of sound.

I'd then record the vinyl and burn it onto CD for the car. :)

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Re:Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music by colechristensen on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:12AM (#20604910)
Vinyl has the benefit of a physical limitation, if you add too much loudness the needle will bounce out of the track. You have to master a record in a specific way or it won't work at all.
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