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PossibilitySuperb465 t1_j20wvr1 wrote

Reply to comment by Opus-the-Penguin in Wiil CD's make a comeback like Vinyl? by trukises

>You couldn't go jogging with them

Loolllll man, takes me back. They were really fine in cars though in the 80s (unless you hit a bumpy patch, it would for sure skip lol). Honestly and truly, the few people who I knew back then who were obsessed with audio were still clutching vinyls and eyeing CDs with suspicion. I honestly do remember there being multiple camps on this topic back then though, so the discrepancy in our recollection is frankly unsurprising.

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Opus-the-Penguin t1_j20y8x8 wrote

Yeah, I remember the holdouts who claimed that vinyl sounded "warmer". I also remember the articles in magazines like Stereo Review where the audio engineers were proving objectively that the CD was delivering more and more accurate sound information to your earballs. They said the "warmth" you were hearing in the LP was an artifact of deficiencies in the recording and playback process and meant that you were hearing sound that was somewhat different from the sounds that had been recorded.

Meanwhile, the so-called "golden ears" of the industry were confirming subjectively that what they were hearing from the CD was closer to hearing a live performance than anything they'd heard out of an LP.

So I figured, yeah, go with the experts and go with what my ears were telling me.

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j229wzn wrote

Warmth really just means "Extra Midrange Presence" and "Less Sharp Treble."

Very easy to simulate "Warmth" and even "Extra Stereo Separation" by using the RC20 VST.

That thing has MANY options.

Wow, Flutter, Wobble, Crackle, Distortion.

If you wanna make a digital recording ripped from a CD sound like it was recorded from a Vinyl, you totally can.

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