Producer compares digital master with R2R, vinyl, cassette, Apple Music & Spotify

[Revolutions]

Someone shared this on Maverick Hifi, thought worth copying here. Really interesting video, if nothing new really discovered:

View: https://youtu.be/6iohmhZWDNo

 

[good_enough]

Meaningless without naming repro equipment. Vinyl with an AT95 or a Koetsu signature? Cassette on a Walkman or a Nak? But I guess he gets clicks so that's OK.

 

[davidf]

Maybe I'm missing something - how can you record an obviously compressed master onto another format and suddenly have greater dynamics?

 

[davidf]

Meaningless without naming repro equipment. Vinyl with an AT95 or a Koetsu signature? Cassette on a Walkman or a Nak? But I guess he gets clicks so that's OK.

He shows what he's using at the beginning of the video.

 

[BigH]

What awful music. The sound quality is not great either. Yes very compressed.

YT is all about number of views and money.

 

[Revolutions]

Maybe I'm missing something - how can you record an obviously compressed master onto another format and suddenly have greater dynamics?

It’s probably distortion.

I enjoyed it for the fact of an audio engineer describing what he was hearing, reinforcing that analogue formats seem to boost mids/bass & add distortion which gives the sound something of a warmer feel.