Vinyl playback - lack of bass?

I did a quick comparison of the first few minutes of Scheherazade, between the SACD and the reissue Vinyl.

I adjusted the volume so that the opening (bass heavy) chords were within a dB or so.  The levels of the violin entry were subsequently somewhat different.  Roughly 4dB difference, the vinyl louder.  The opening is bass heavy, do that would suggest that the bass levels are depressed in the LP.

Part of this is probably that loud passages tend to have higher bass content and LPs, were (are?) dynamically compressed owing to limitations of the medium.  (NO judgement of sound quality but the dynamic range of an LP is 70dB at most, SACD or high res PCM at least 96dB).

alright, so I did some testing last night on 2 songs.

Daft Punk album. With the LP version it was very similar in bass vs tidal. one song had more pronounced bass on the LP version and another on the streaming version, but very very slight. Seems like maybe the last few albums I spun on record caused me to think there was a lack of bass.

When I said older it was 80s rock. So I know one Skid Row I had listened to a few months ago and the one from 2 nights ago lacked some bass, but it seems like this must be the recording and not an issue with the LP itself.

Also, like most are mentioning, I will need to wait for the cartridge to fully break in. I just wish I could fast track it. 100 hours is probably something like 133 records. I am keeping track as I mark the ones Ive listened to. I guess I need to be a bit more patient. Will probably put some Black Sabbath on tonight.

@tomrk I love Styx and I think that might be the only LP I don't have of theirs. lol  I'm going to check it out though.  Not to get too far off topic but have you listened to Crash of the Crown.  It took me a minute but some of the tunes are really good imo.  Def a dif kind of Styx but pretty interesting.

@lewm 

I haven’t “confused” anything. I was referencing early production cdp’s. I thought I said that. Also, of course the term “brick wall” is a metaphor for very steep slope. I probably was remiss in not acknowledging that SACD and DSD ameliorated the problem. But I still hear an unnatural abrupt cutoff of extreme low bass with physical discrete CDs. For whatever reason.

Research doesn’t support me. I was wrong apparently about the low frequency limit built into RBCDs, but I still hear a less natural extreme low frequency response with RBCDs. I have to re-read some 1970s literature to remember why.

No, you simply said digital!

To me this is the perfect example of confirmation bias.  You read something in Stereophile decades ago and now authoritatively state that digital has a low frequency cut-off at 22-Hz, which is completely untrue.  You only have to understand how digital is formatted to understand this.  Or to check out a specification. To the best of my knowledge, there simply is no low frequency limit built into RBCDs, yet you repeat "the low frequency limit built into RBCDs".

You claim you hear this when you go to a concert, so it must be true, but it simply does not exist!

Now it may well be that your digital playback system incorporates a high pass filter somewhere in the chain.  DC offsets are not good for speakers, after all.

This is in no way an attack on you personally, because I have high regard for your analogue contributions, it is just an illustration of how audiophile myths can easily become lore.

@vair68robert 

Im going to open it up and check. Here is where Im confused and because of my bad memory, I dont remember, but I know Ive had this discussion possibly with moon directly. Resistance loading : J12 and J30 is 1k but in Ω .

Capacitance Loading options : 0pF, 100pF and 470pF

From the Rega site in regards to the Ania:

Impedance 100 Ω
Capacitance 1000 pF

So Im assuming the Impedance = Resistance loading since its measured in Ω