A friend of mine got their son a record player for Christmas. The young kid who has grown up with MP3 digital music, was in awe at the sound depth, and warmth of the vinyl records. He was also amazed at how the volume of the records was so much less than his CD's. This brings up the old argument of which is better, vinyl or digital. Certainly, the digital quality of today's music is amazing, but their is something about vinyl and analog. So I purposely brought the young audiophile into the studio to let him hear some digital uncompressed music at the -10db thresholds that most of records were produced at. He definitely liked the difference as he felt that the uncompressed, lower volume sound was easier to listen to and he was able to hear some things he did not hear before.
In order to compete engineers push the digital envelope and can usually get incredible results. But I bet everyone of them still likes the analog, deep down in their audio souls. Hope to see you in the studio !
