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Let's assume there are people who are able to hear a difference. Why does it matter to a majority of people and the way they consume music? Maybe I'm from a spoiled generation, growing up listening to FM radio and tapes, even copying from tape to tape.

A lot of rock music lives from the imperfection of audio equipment, people spend a considerable amount of time replicating the behavior of vacuum tubes. Even techo producers like Robert Babicz record to analogue tape machine to enhance the final result.



Quite literally the sound of rock music is the sound of distortion. The kinks didn’t razor blade their amps for no reason.




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