"Richard Crowley" wrote in message

Vinyl *adds* realism to anything. Magic it
may be but how and why they don't care.

Nominated for r.a.t ridiculous statement of the year.

"Adds realism"? Do they read this stuff before posting it?

More to the point, do they think about what it means.

I suspect that the *realism* that is added is akin to air-brushing a la
Vargas in Playboy.

Or are they using a different definintion of "real" than the rest of us?

More real, as in conforming to their preconceived notions of what real
sounds like.

Vinyl does have a sort of mixmaster affect on sound. Because of its inherent
distortion and lack of dynamic range, vinyl mastering and recording tends to
remove a certain amount of natural diversity from recordings.