Vinyl can sound great on a good turntable. A lot of the cheap turntables that people are buying now sound awful though and are probably damaging the records.
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It has a lot of factors that can screw up the sound. But once you get it right, they’re way ahead of lots of the modern digital stuff.
Lots of people has a misconception that old vinyl sounds terrible, which is really wrong. I have some records that’s older than my parents. I take good care of em and they sounds incredibly good.
They age well
A lot of older vinyl sounds better than the newer pressings, assuming they have been well looked after.
Older vinyl are closer to mother tape, and no digital involved. But some pressing plants nowadays are just doing sloppy jobs lol no excuses.
I’ve never came across a slightly warped record from the 60s and 70s. New pressings has way more warped discs, it’s almost becoming a norm. 😞
Magic of analogue