why do vinyl rips always have a higher dynamic range? does this database even mean anything?
iirc there's a limit to how much you can digitally compress on a vinyl master or something to that effect (I am not a producer)
https://youtu.be/n-AE9dL5FG8?si=JAw_P-PCghpkuiB4
>>131077166post something people can read and maybe we'll tell you
>>131077166It’s not so much the CD vs Vinyl comparison as it is the year of release. Anything mastered during the loudness wars is going to be more compressed because that was the style.
>>131077283besides, who buys vinyls to get a brickwalled turd of sound?
>>131077166Sometimes the vinyl is genuinely higher dynamic range because it was mastered that way, but sometimes it's just the surface noise and phase distortion artificially inflating the number. It might also be the vinyl having less bass. Experiment with allpass/highpass filtering and measuring DR to learn how this works.