Wouldn’t reel to reel technology like they use in big fancy recording studios technically be better than vinyl?
yup, there is a reason why analog is mixed down to a
two-track reel-to-reel master tape... not a very convenient format, tho.
saying you prefer vinyl is like saying you prefer to see everything through yellow-tinted glasses. nothing wrong with a preference, but it's colored. vinyl has a sound of its own, and there are the distorsions (crackle, pops, wow, flutter, etc.). end result: what you hear on vinyl is not what the artists and engineers signed off on in the studio. no one mixes down an album, masters it, then goes and prints a vinyl copy to see how it'll sound. the last thing the artists/mixers/management/etc. hear before it goes to the pressing plant (and an engineer there has to tinker with it to make it work for vinyl) is the aforementioned two-track reel-to-reel.
i forget which producer said it - was someone famous like steve albini or bob rock - "i use analog for its sound, and digital for its non-sound."
