Vinyl can still push music to the limits of its dynamic range 55 70db but it often shies away from doing so in order to maintain sound quality.
Does vinyl sound better or is it nastalgia.
In brief an engineer such as gonsalves receives mixed recordings from the studio or even a band s laptop.
If a song is recorded on tape its conversion to vinyl better preserves the original sound of the song.
Vinyl for the most part avoided the loudness war with the rise of digital music cds included it s possible to make a track sound louder than it naturally should.
Before weighing vinyl s ahem good and bad sides it helps to know how records are made.
There s another far superior reason why vinyl is better than lossy digital formats.
That s why snare drums cymbal splashes and other loud instruments have so much more punch in vinyl recordings.
And of course records have that undeniable nostalgia that so aptly captures either childhood memories or just a simpler or arguably better time in music history.
The problem here is that it had a tremendous result on the audio quality.