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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
The analog medium itself is responsible for a lot of the warmth to vinyl.
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Nah, don't really agree on that one. It's the same story with tubes or tape.
If my tube amp sounded warm, I'd have thrown it out. If my tapedecks sound warmer than the source. I can genuinely say that my CD current CD player (A Denon I borrowed as my Myryad needs a new laser
) sounds warmer than my record player. My record player is really honest. Sometimes a bit too honest. Bad recordings sound awful on it.
Vinyl, tubes or tape shouldn't have to sound warmer than a digital recording. A proper phono cardridge has a waaay wider frequency range than a CD player does. When the record is made properly, a vinyl record should be able to produce a sound just as 'straight forward' as a CD does.
Same goes for tape. A proper tape deck does 15 to 25000hz in a straight line. No reason to believe that a tape should sound warmer than the source.
It does have a certain 'roundness' or 'smoothness' if you will, but that's only in comparison to a CD, which lacks smoothness
