• renzev@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know shit about fuck, but you explanation seems correct.

    I do remember hearing that precisely because of the limitations of vinyl compared to CD, music is mastered differently for each medium. So the CD master of a certain song might be more compressed (dynamic compression, not digital compression) to make it sound “louder”, while the vinyl release has a wider dynamic range. So some people might prefer the vinyl version because it actually does sound different to the CD version.

    Keep in mind tho, I might be spreading misinformation here.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The loudness wars were definitely a thing; you are correct. But that was a choice and not a limitation of the medium. Plenty of CDs were not produced that way. But that’s not what the OC was talking about. They were talking about down sampling, not dynamic range compression.