6 years ago
Why vinyl records survive in the digital age
Ask a record-collecting audiophile why vinyl is back and you may hear a common refrain: "Of course vinyl's back! It's a more accurate reproduction of the original! It just sounds better than digital!" To this I reply, "Does it really, though? Or is it just EQ'd better? And since when did we start caring so much about the perfect fidelity of our recordings? I grew up—as did many of you—listening to cassette tapes on a boom box. They sounded horrible, and we loved them."
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