David wrote:
"Trevor" wrote in message
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"Randy Yates" wrote in message
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Even if the source material was marginal, you'd still have sonic
advantages with a CD. For example, the elimination of ticks and
pops, wow-and-flutter, and rumble. But I miss my anti-static gun,
dirt brush, and Yamaha direct-drive turntable nonetheless... 
Gee I sure don't!
And I certainly don't miss the ticks, pops, wow, flutter, and rumble
either. Nor the cost of replacement stylii or cartridges. Or trying
to find decently made vinyl records in the first place! In fact I
can't think of one thing I miss besides the bigger cover art. But
the storage hassle more than negates that IMO.
Yet another person that hasn't listened to a recent release on vinyl
and compared it to the same release on CD then?
You'd be eating your words if you had. For some reason the sound
engineers that mix vinyl, in general, don't compress the hell out of
the dynamic range like they do CD.
They don't need to - the medium does it for them ! Or low-level detail is
lost.
Are you suggesting that those same engineers for some bizarre reason
over-compress the CD releases of that same material? Then they are
incompetent !
Or are you commenting on the general 'norms' of CD mastering these days ?
geoff