@jk …usually being noises from cables, DC, etc.
Dynamic range is far narrower, thus it's required to perform completely different from CDs mastering even nowadays, but oddly enough it exceeds -6dBm range defined by Loudness War and usually provides -8…-12dBm instead.
Completely different scene and ambience.
Completely different low-freq and bass especially: warm, more "rounded", more lively.
Even then, reel-to-reel Led Zeppelin IV is even more eargasm than a vinyl rip.
@lungelimb i mean i was just kinda making a joke about inner groove distortion haha