On: Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)

[jlarcombe]

The thing is, vinyl (and tape) typically can't reproduce waveforms like that accurately, so it's difficult to compare. You can take a hyper-compressed master, cut it to vinyl or record it to tape, then play it back in to a computer, and it'll look different and less "brickwalled".

[CarVac → jlarcombe]

Regardless, for me the CD is actually painful to listen to even at low volumes, while the vinyl is excellent.