[geoff]

David wrote:
"geoff" wrote in message
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.

Are you suggesting that those same engineers for some bizarre reason
over-compress the CD releases of that same material? Then they are
incompetent !


Indeed they do and it's not incompetence, it's marketing
pressure......'Loud is good' and all that bollox.
The majority of people that buy digital music formats play it as
background music or in cars or on Ipods etc. so dynamic range is
wasted on them. The majority of people that still buy vinyl, sit down and
listen to
it. Yes CD could be much better than vinyl but in reallity because of the
mastering, it's not.

Well the answer is to record the vinyl onto CD and play it back from there
!

The different mastering (and noise, distortion, wow, flutter, limited
frequency and dynamic response, etc) will all be faithfully reproduced !

geoff