In search of why vinyl lovers love vinyl

[galyons]

.... Vinyl RIAA is a compression/decompression format that.........

No compression/decompression involved in RIAA equalization.
http://www.stereophile.com/features/cut_and_thrust_riaa_lp_equalization

Now there were a few LPs recorded with dbx noise suppression that was an compression/expansion process. LP encoding with dbx never got very popular and it died in the mid 1980s.   

I think we are quibbling here.  To equalize or deemphasize the amplitude of the signal is to reduce, or compress the peaks.

Cheers,
Geary

 

[Wanderer]

[I think we are quibbling here.  To equalize or deemphasize the amplitude of the signal is to reduce, or compress the peaks.

Cheers,
Geary

Guess I am a hard nose but I don't think it is a quibble. Compression/expansion effects the  dynamic/volumn range of the signal while equalization effects the frequecy balance of the signal.

Compression/expansion and equalization are different things that effect different aspects of the signal.

An audio compressor/expander, "compander", is a wholly different device then an equalizer.  An equalizer can be realized with a completely passive device, like "The Fix", but I can't see how one could make a passive compander. 

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