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Originally Posted by MaDalton
vinyl records are like tube amps - it's hard to explain why (from a scientific point of view), but they simply have something that a CD or modern amp do not have.
but: once music is digitally recorded and digitally mastered putting it on a vinyl record doesn't help either. you need a good old 24 track machine and analogue mixing and mastering for the "real thing" ;)
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The tube amp is easy: It produces even numbered harmonics while solid state produces odd numbered ones. So the tube has a "warm" pleasant sounding distortion and the solid state has a "harsh" unpleasant one.
With digital you have to compress the living hell out of it when you go to CD to get it "loud". Because once you go into the red on the meters with digital it doesn't have anywhere to go so it kinda "farts" out.
But the vinyl doesn't do that. It goes into a natural sweet distortion that our ears don't hear as distortion but more as a "warm" sound.
Of course that is really more apparent on analog tape. But it still applies to digital transfer to vinyl with todays studio software. You can keep it down under the red zone to master without compressing the hell out of it and THEN crank up the levels for the vinyl mastering to get that "warmth" on the actual vinyl record.
This album sounds great! Not that "Exile" was ever a crisp sounding record. It was always a murky dark mix. But I can definitely hear a lot more stuff going on than I can on my CD of the original album.
While I was at Best Buy I also saw "Dark Side Of The Moon" remastered on vinyl. Holy shit! I bet that thing sounds like pure ear candy