Re:Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is call...
by coldtea on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:24PM
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He disagrees, but it's not about the mathematics.
The "cold and thin" vs warm and thick lies on the nonlinearities, the subtle saturation you get on tape/vinyl, the patina, even the tactility. The ease of skipping makes it even worse.
And that's before we've got to the cultural changes in attitudes towards music between the vinyl/tape and the cd/streaming eras (where music, which was king, is now just another passtime for teens), nor the changes in musical content.
The "cold and thin" vs warm and thick lies on the nonlinearities, the subtle saturation you get on tape/vinyl, the patina, even the tactility. The ease of skipping makes it even worse.
And that's before we've got to the cultural changes in attitudes towards music between the vinyl/tape and the cd/streaming eras (where music, which was king, is now just another passtime for teens), nor the changes in musical content.