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Re: Vinyl compression

You should know that we have never employed peak compression on our classical releases. That still applies today on our SACD classical releases.

As to vinyl playback delivering peaks hotter than digital, even if we were comparing equal reference levels, which we are not, the peaks on vinyl playback have much more THD than digital peaks by a long shot. Heck, past the 7.5 inch diameter, "groove pinch" causes overall THD to climb dramatically. Better tonearms can reduce this effect, but the distortion still rises dramatically due to the lower effective rotational speed of the disk past that point.


Best Regards,

Michael Bishop
Recording Engineer


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