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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)
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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The loudness wars were definitely a thing; you are correct. But that was a choice and not a limitation of the medium. Plenty of CDs were not produced that way. But that's not what the OC was talking about. They were talking about down sampling, not dynamic range compression.