AlexKzillion
12.11.22 | did some research on this for a college paper like five years ago and found that a lot of new vinyl pressings are just mp3 rips... at least for the really really big artists
also the new pressings for older artists like priest are most likely remasters that already make the album sound worse 99% of the time. |
heck
12.11.22 | old vinyl records were likely sourced from the original masters. a lot of those original masters don't exist anymore, so they're sourced from digital (typically lossless CD rips, not MP3s as the previous poster stated). most notably, the Universal Music Group fire in 2008 destroyed a lot of masters of really big artists. |
zakalwe
12.11.22 | I know it may shock you but some things in the past genuinely were better. Music for one. |
Hyperion1001
12.11.22 | vinyl is objectively worse quality than digital. "warmness" is just distortion from the medium.
a mix of nostalgia and using original tape masters results in the "vinyl is better" myth but an uncompressed 24bit 96khz digital file is the highest quality of audio reproduction we have access to right now.
mixing and mastering approaches are an entirely different thing, and the "loudness war" has resulted in degraded audio quality in the digital era, but a shitty production job is gonna sound shit on any medium. the physical lacquer disc itself has very little to do with why the format is as revered as it is. |
Drifter
12.11.22 | the only time ive noticed a considerable difference in vinyl vs digital is the 2lp version of jeff buckley's grace and the 20th anniversary yellow 2lp of green day's nimrod. literally night and day for both but in general ill just take my cds |
BAT
12.12.22 | yeee main difference is most modern produced vinyl uses digital masters, which is often sourced from later generations of master copies. og old school pressings are sourced from the original unworn master and each time that analog masters reissued the sound quality is slightly diminished as more copies produced. digital masters became standard in the 80s so prior stuff was sourced from decades old masters. thaaat said : really depends on the record, even digital pressings can sound better than older releases but its not guaranteed[unless its a mofi release]. |
deathschool
12.12.22 | And I will be better when I am older |
Sabrutin
12.12.22 | Old CDs from the 80s (and 90s, but compression started to become a trend there) are the real physical holy grail for people who want to own and preserve their classics
(obvs that's a generalization, e.g. the Beatles are a mess of their own) |
