Vinyl cut from a digital source is nothing but a vinyl cd.


Sam here and the only reason universal music/sony/ warner bros, got back into cutting vinyl again was because young people started listening to there parents vinyl collection from the 70’s & 80’s and realized how much better it sounded and how it made them feel, so they started putting out fake vinyl cut from a digital source to fool everyone. Vinyl cut from a digital source is not the same as vinyl cut from an analog reel to reel. Digital audio suffers from dynamic compression for the fake loudness wars and vinyl cut from digital audio is for the most part unlistenable because of the dynamic compression. The only reason the record company would add dynamic compression to a digital to vinyl transfer is to destroy the sound quality. Have a listen to this and tell me the 2016 digital to vinyl cut remaster is anything but a distorted unlistenable mess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kX9XyOQlM

Here is the digital to vinyl remaster of the eagles - life in the fast lane WB/Rhino Re-Issue 180g; Mastered by Kevin Gray@AcousTech 24/96. http://u.pc.cd/SYMrtalK

Now here is the same 180g remaster with the dynamic compression removed, and the dirty emf removed using a shungite stone placed on my circuit breaker box before re-encoding. http://u.pc.cd/kGJctalK
guitarsam
Not all records being pressed use the mastering for CDs and digital files.

As far as that crappy sounding Metallica goes, I'm surprised they bothered to use RIAA equalization for the vinyl. 

Metal heads would not care. 
The euphoric distortions that occur with vinyl playback will make any CD sound better.
Digital audio suffers from dynamic compression for the fake loudness wars and vinyl cut from digital audio is for the most part unlistenable because of the dynamic compression. The only reason the record company would add dynamic compression to a digital to vinyl transfer is to destroy the sound quality.
This statement is incorrect. When we master an LP we like to get the original digital master, the one before all the stuff (DSP) that is done for the digital release. The original will not have the compression, which is not needed for LP in the vast majority of cases, and it often is not equalized. In this way we can make an LP that will sound better than the commercial digital release.


The industry likes to compress the digital release master so it will play better in a car. There is no expectation of this for the LP, so no compression. The less DSP, the better the sound...