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This post is going to explain the differences between digital music files and vinyl records.
Digital music excels in one category, ease of use. No question about it. Music on your phone can be paused, rewound, shared, streamed, anything. In fact on your phone you have access to almost any piece of music ever recorded. It really is an amazing thing. However, everything comes at a cost, and with such a great gain, there is a great cost.
Quality. Simple as that. you cant compress music that once took up two full sides of a 12 inch disk into a microscopic space without losing some sound quality. That's obvious. The only question is how much do you lose?
Quite a lot. Thanks to something called The Loudness War. It's not something that most people will complain about aside from certain audiophiles. And you lose it in two ways; dynamic range, and loudness. Dynamic range is the difference in volume between the softest note and the loudest. Loudness is, well, loudness.
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