vinyl

But the blogpost is arguing that it is the tangibility of vinyl that is its savior, comobined with good sense of record labels to also provide the download...

Back in the day, it was my practice to copy vinyl to tape, and then just play tapes.

People are clearly choosing tape for the same reason as vinyl: a desire for embodiment of the music.

They lack the width and height of vinyl and CD so album art is not as cool.

Plus retail has its costs too, markup for vinyl used to be around 50%, plus VAT.

Cassettes and Vinyl means consciously and fashionably retro.

Even if you especially like the sound of vinyl, you can just play one and record it on a CD.

As digital is a superior format, technically, it would be possible to record/produce/mix a song to sound identically (flawed) to vinyl.

A CD can clearly outreproduce a vinyl even the first time you play the vinyl record -- by the fifth time you're playing the vinyl record it's clearly inferior from a technical perspective.

When you cut a vinyl master, you were probably doing it from tape.

In the vinyl era, you needed session musicians on staff at the studio.

In general, you can trade play time for quality when cutting vinyl.

As a vinyl enthusiast, I find claims of vinyl's superior "sound qualitY" (whatever that means) to be laughable.

Just last weekend, I saw the episode of "How It's Made" on Science Channel that covered vinyl pressed records.

It may sound "better", but I find it lacks the warmth and depth that vinyl provides.

Multi take, multitrack recording was a thing "in the vinyl era".

It took me to Amazon, but the song wasn't available on MP3, only on Audio CD or Vinyl.

Vinyl is expensive to make, and heavy and expensive to ship.