I've argued for years that digital is better(*), but that the loudness wars and over-compression squeezes the life out of the music.

(*) The presenter in the OP video concludes they're "functionally the same". Well, more or less. Actually vinyl normally does introduce a tiny(!) amount of distortion that digital does not, but it tends towards 2nd harmonic which is "nice, warm" distortion that we perceive as a slight additional richness.

Here's a "loudness war" explanation from 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

...and another from 2011 that followed when I viewed the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcKDMBuGodU

I make recordings of a jazz group of which I'm part. I sometimes use a little of compression on them, as the microphone pair is rarely in the ideal place. When I do, the band notice that the sound "isn't quite right".

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 11/03/21 04:54 AM.
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