(April 10, 2016 at 11:22 am)Kosh Wrote: Vinyl has becomes a premium priced (aka expensive) niche market. I think the general consensus is that people who listen to vinyl care more about how their music sounds. Your not listening to your vinyl on a phone with cheap earbuds. The good Artist/record labels will actually go back to the original recording tracks (before the mastering process), and create a vinyl specific master that is free from dynamic range compression and excessive volume levels.
That is insane. If an artist/record label has the ability to access the original recording before it was butchered, why record it onto a vinyl record? That's idiocy. If you care about quality, record that original onto a CD or make it available in a lossless digital format like WAV.
I stand by my original statement: Vinyl is snake oil. It's a ridiculous product. Original recordings, free from coloration is good but offer it in a modern format. That's what we should be demanding. What they're doing by offering it in vinyl is promoting a stupid myth that digital = bad and there is something magical and good about vinyl. It's utter nonsense and you obviously know it.
It's your choice but to me, buying vinyl is perpetuating and validating a fraud. Why not demand proper mastering on a modern format? If there is a demand, someone will step up to fulfill it because there is money to be made.
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