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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by etothet on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:54AM (#43219244)
It depends who you talk to. Some people feel vinyl “sounds more analog” just because of the format. Some people feel it adds natural saturation. In my opinion what matters most is the recording source. That said, bass frequencies respond very different on vinyl. Because of this, it’s pretty common to make a separate master for digital and vinyl.

FWIW, almost all vinyl records produced today will come from a digital source. Even if the music was recorded directly to tape, there’s very likely a step of getting that audio into the digital domain.

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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by redeux on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:04PM (#43221800)
I think the compression format is what people point to when they say that digital music isn’t as full or “analog” sounding, and that would be true for vinyls made from a source that uses the same format, but there’s also the potential to use the raw WAV file which wouldn’t have this issue even if it’s digital.
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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by etothet on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:20AM (#43266039)
It would be extremely unusual to print a vinyl record from anything less than 44.1 kHz / 16 bit wave or aiff.

Also, for what it’s worth you can find online audio tests (https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...) that let you test if you can hear the difference between CD quality audio vs high bit rate mp3. Basically nobody can determine the difference with accuracy.

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