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  • Yes you can compress vinyl matters like you can CD because of the generally more infinite dynamic range of CD making easy for even louder mastering. So that and the vinyl records will be jumping violently and not play well.

    So because of that limitation, vinyl is generally conservative with reducing dynamics just to be louder than another record…

    Funny how the medium that was created so more expression of dynamic range could be achieved ended up doing the opposite.

    Why do you think orchestras and the other generally more dynamic forms of music jumped to CD quickly after it was invented cos it meant they didn’t have to play at a certain constant loudness threshold and now can have the quietest parts and the most bombastic ones afterward be cause of the whooping 96dB of dynamic range.

    Mainstream music went the opposite direction and don’t even use 10dB of dynamic range.

    There’s this arbitrary standard of mastering with on 9dB dynamic range as average.

    It’s sad.

    For example: CD Version of “25” by Adele has an average DR of 5 - https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/184764

    Vinyl Version of the same album has a DR average of 11 - https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/99017

    That’d 6dB more dynamic range on average on a format that is actually inferior. Sad