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Mr.T MrT@home wrote:
Only *some* people actually believe that vinyl distortions are "best"
though.

Indeed.

Others realise the best performance/mastering job are not unique
to any media.

There's no doubt of the trend to try and win the 'loudness war' with many
pop CDs, though. Something that has always bemused me.

I was first sort of aware of it many years ago when DAT took over from
cassette on the demo front. Demo cassettes were always peaked to maximum
(and beyond) with *some* justification, I suppose, given the often poor
quality of the replay equipment. But then exactly the same happened with
DAT when to the best of my knowledge no one produced a cheap DAT all in
one playback system to rival a simple cassette player.

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