Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression

@seekerbob my son has never bought a record, but has watched me all his life putting records on to a turntable. All we can do is to condition the young to regard this as just another way to play music. A few of them might be alert enough to the stimuli in their auditory cortex to understand that it might be the best way. Maybe we should play compact cassettes as an alternative?

I doubt that Technics is selling all their new turntables to just the high end market.

When we were mastering LPs for a digital source file, we would try to make sure that the file had no DSP other than normalization. In that way we could master an LP that had greater dynamic punch than the digital master. I know we were not the only mastering house doing that! Since the digital release is often thought to be played in a car, there is a tendency to compress it. LPs of course have no such expectation.

Irony is still in. If you want the most dynamic range out of a recording you stand a better chance getting it with the LP rather than the digital release simply on this account.

@atmasphere 

Columbia records classical division used to master records in the sixties with the expectation that they would be listened to on AM Radio

@mahler123 

The radio stations have their own compression they've used for decades, even back in the 1960s.  I don't doubt Colombia was using compression though. I was commenting on much more recent releases.

Some of Hollywood released Queen vinyls aren’t just dynamically compressed , they sound like they used low but bit MP3’s as masters!