Comment by Slow_Hand
3 days ago
This. The loudness is an aesthetic choice.
The reason it was backed off for the vinyl master is most likely due to physical limitations of the medium. If the audio channels are too loud (wide) there is risk that the needle will jump out of the groove.
This is exactly why vinyl is inferior to tape and digital.
Sometimes limitations can have benefits.
It's worse for recording arbitrary waveforms, sure. It's very well suited for music, though.
You mean beside all the noise it has?
A new dust free record shouldn't have any but yeah, that'll happen over time.