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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by dantheclamman to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The best explanation I've seen is that music is mixed differently for CD/streaming and vinyl.

For mass market, the move has been to mix for louder bass and similar things. The idea being that it makes the music more popular. But it also makes it difficult to appreciate anything but the bass.

On vinyl, you can't max out bass like that, it won't work on the format. So they have to give it a normal mix instead, making it sound better. In theory CDs should sound better than vinyl, but because of the music production trends, it doesn't currently.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is correct, although it's not the bass that is limited on vinyl; it's the dynamic range compression (or 'loudness') in general.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So you have to fiddle with the volume less on vinyl?

That's the one good selling point I've heard for vinyl so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I like this take. it's probably also why I'm gravitating towards cassettes now, you don't need a special mix but you also can't just max the volume because magnetic media saturates and distorts quite quickly.