Yeah, that’s my point - I have a small vinyl collection but it’s mostly jazz albums with vinyl specific masters. I haven’t noticed any special vinyl specific sound myself beyond whatever the engineers intentionally created but for whatever reason some albums get significantly different treatments for vinyl. I’m not sure if the better margins for the format pay for the remaster work or what - I’ve noticed some labels do SACD releases too. So I guess the format has charmed me after all, because I haven’t bought any SACDs :)
Funny enough there’s definitely some vinyl releases where the opposite occurred and they get a sloppy transfer or the label literally just presses an mp3 that already exists, especially now that they’re booming among people who won’t actually play them (or won’t play them on decent equipment.) So you can go out and potentially buy a vinyl record that just replays a digital master with poorer compression than what’s on streaming.
Definitely agree regarding everything else that comes with the package. I have the Myst box set because that game had such an impact on my life and it’s so well done with extra books, maps, etc.
Funny enough there’s definitely some vinyl releases where the opposite occurred and they get a sloppy transfer or the label literally just presses an mp3 that already exists, especially now that they’re booming among people who won’t actually play them (or won’t play them on decent equipment.) So you can go out and potentially buy a vinyl record that just replays a digital master with poorer compression than what’s on streaming.
Definitely agree regarding everything else that comes with the package. I have the Myst box set because that game had such an impact on my life and it’s so well done with extra books, maps, etc.