Like I said though. The mixes tend to be better. There is no technical reason that vinyl would have higher dynamic range than 16 bit lossless digital let alone 24 bit but a lot of the time IT DOES even on the same recording, for two reasons;
a) There is a limit to how loud the mixes can be on Vinyl. If they made the mixes as loud as on some cds the stylus would jump out of the groove on most turntables. As a result, because of this technical LIMITATION the mixes tend to be less compressed and hence higher dynamic range.
b) A lot of people that buy vinyl are audiophiles and generally people who listen to vinyl will listen to better equipment than digital so the mixes seem to cater more to the audiophile crowd instead of making the mixes so that they sound great on crappy *** blutooth iphone speakers or stock apple earbuds
Here is a perfect example:
http://www.metal-fi.com/iced-earth-plagues-of-babylon/
Read the second last paragraph. This is not exactly uncommon.
a) There is a limit to how loud the mixes can be on Vinyl. If they made the mixes as loud as on some cds the stylus would jump out of the groove on most turntables. As a result, because of this technical LIMITATION the mixes tend to be less compressed and hence higher dynamic range.
b) A lot of people that buy vinyl are audiophiles and generally people who listen to vinyl will listen to better equipment than digital so the mixes seem to cater more to the audiophile crowd instead of making the mixes so that they sound great on crappy *** blutooth iphone speakers or stock apple earbuds
Here is a perfect example:
http://www.metal-fi.com/iced-earth-plagues-of-babylon/
Read the second last paragraph. This is not exactly uncommon.