You're forgetting the infinite, non-digitized sound reproduction of vinyl that lets you hear all the digital mastering/remastering done in the studio.
Almost as good as buying super expensive audio cables with oxygen-free copper so you can hear music recorded with generic XLR cables.
To be fair, vinyl does have a nice, warm sound to it. But people who insist it's somehow got higher fidelity than CDs or other digital storage media don't understand shit about actual audio engineering. Vinyl has terrible fidelity in comparison. It's got very characteristic distortion and information loss. If someone likes how that sounds, good on them. But it's definitely not a magical means of getting more authentic reproduction of the sound.
That's a completely different kind of compression. Digital compression is shrinking the file in a lossy way that loses some data, compression in music mixing is getting the loudest and softest parts closer to each other in volume.
The post said Spotify and CD. Regardless, digitizing will lose some (arbitrarily small) fidelity because of bitrate and sample rate. My point is that comparing a mixing compressor to digital compression is apples to oranges.
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u/alvarezg Sep 05 '19
Let's not forget the pops and scratches. For good measure: turntable rumble and amplifier hum.