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by randy909 1196 days ago
> Vinyl and casettes required pre-emphasis of highs to offset the limited high frequency response and noise of analog media.

This is true of tape but not vinyl. High frequencies are difficult for vinyl and are better off rolled off. A lot of exciters were used before the tape to get a certain, pleasing distortion. Sounded bad when people started switching to ADAT from analog tape.