[Syonyk]

What if they're right?

https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=Taylor+Swift&album=Red - one fairly recent album I found in which the vinyl version seems to have quite a bit more dynamic range than the digital or CD versions.

There's also the benefit of vinyl in that a single sale will typically send quite a bit of money actually to the band - vs streaming sending fractions of a penny, if that, per play. One of the best ways to actually support a band you like is to buy the LP, even if you don't have a turntable.

[Pet_Ant]

As I said 58 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597194

> Ugh, this frustrates me. You are just saying that the _mix_ put on vinyl is better than the mix put on CD. That same mix put on CD would be even better due to higher fidelity of the format. Vinyl is a strictly worse format... unfortunately it's also an easier source of better mixes.

Demand better mixes, not vinyl.

[Syonyk]

I 100% agree.

I just have no idea how to go about doing that, short of demonstrating that people are willing to pay good money for good mixes on vinyl, and perhaps a few people getting the idea that a good mix on CD might sell too. But this, historically, has been the "SACD" and related versions of an album, which seem to mostly not exist anymore.

[TimTheTinker]

> in which the vinyl version seems to have quite a bit more dynamic range than the digital or CD versions

Perhaps the mastering engineer did that intentionally? Surely the vinyl dynamic range doesn't exceed 96db.