Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦I saw a young person talking about how they just bought 6 vinyls from their favorite artists but that they didn’t have a “vinyl reader” to play them on yet, and I think I felt my face slide off.
NazoI’m sure it won’t be the last time, but it was an entirely new sensation in the moment.
@KydiaMusic If it makes you feel any better, I may not be able to do this for vinyls, but I have gotten this many many times (especially recently) in computing and gaming. People call systems "old" that I was playing almost daily up until maybe two years ago. Now I'm seeing games designed to look like they're in 320x200 or worse resolutions because they think it's a "neat retro effect."
When I was stuck with 320x200 I wanted nothing more than to see higher resolutions. I never once looked back. I still don't look back with nostalgia on just the resolutions themselves, only maybe what some did with them. But devs look back and just copy the substance of it. *Sigh*
It’s a similar issue with vinyl, probably. The “warmth” of vinyl that audiophiles praise is more due to the analog equipment it was originally recorded and mixed on, back before digital audio workstations and MIDI were not even options. Now that warmth is not easily replicated via digital tools and the vinyl itself is not going to impart that warmth on its own.
I listened to Shout by Tears for Fears on streaming through my studio speakers and the warmth was def still there.
@KydiaMusic Well, IMO the main benefit of vinyl is its relative immunity to the loudness war. A lot of people may not even realize that's the difference they're really looking for though. There is literally no reason that can't be done the same in digital except that they don't want to and honestly that kind of angers me.
I remember once getting the soundtrack on CD for a game with amazing music I enjoyed and the bad equalization they had put into the game itself was baked into the soundtrack even. There was literal clipping in the audio actually in the CD audio... And the thing is, if they made a vinyl and didn't reengineer it for that, it would still be just as bad, but the reason they would have to is it would produce multiple records for the one soundtrack...