Lokkerman
14 Feb 2023
Why Vinyl has only been a marketing but not audio phenomena for the last 2-3 decades.
Vinyl solicits debate. It is normally a binary debate, which is rather strange for a medium which is supposed to be analogue in nature.
In my mind good vinyl has only a very little digital involvement, apart from upto the mid 1980's, when digital was trying to emulate the analaogue art.
Even this will solicit debate, yet I was from an analogue world, questioned the sound of CD (and still do) and also retain a good vinyl system, albeit largely unused.
Now read this:
"Maybe you’re reading this and concluding that you should revert to records, that vinyl reigns supreme. “For old stuff, absolutely,” Katz says. “If you’re buying new music, there’s no point to buying vinyl. You can make new LPs, and I’ve done some for dance artists, but it’s a fad without much of a point. The original was recorded digitally, and never went to analog tapes. To get rich sound, you’d need to put no more than 17 minutes on one side, which means for a 45-minute album, you’d need three sides. If you’re a real audiophile, you’d want a 45 rpm disc, which would mean only one to two songs per side. Then again, there are some people out there who don’t seem to mind the masochistic tango of turning the LP over every song,” Katz chuckles. “To each, their own.”"
Source - Gear Patrol https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/a489514/remastered-records/
Bob Katz - famous vinyl mastering engineer April 2019.
Now to add my threepenneth; I love traditional, analogue all the way through, vinyl. Especially without edge and tracking distortion, with well balanced and set up equipment, it is stunning. Enough said.