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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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