Actually i read a good thing on a fbk page today and fleetingly considered forwarding it to you but it was long and i wasn't sure it'd be.of interest. It could have been titled 'why so many vinyl re issues sound ****' but it wasn't. And the problem isn't confined to reissues.
Not to mention that a lot of the "remastered" reissues aren't from first generation recordings and suffer as a result. Several of the remastered reissues are reportedly quite dire, with dropouts and inconsistent volumes of instrumentation, as I've discovered very recently.
Yes that"s true.
Another major factor is the way the phenomenon dubbed 'the loudness wars' is also prevalent on vinyl records , having been waged on new and reissued CDs for some years. LPs are commonly mastered from a digital source. This needn"t be so bad but extreme compression is used, and the overall volume is jacked up. This foregrounsds some information, and the initial effect on the listener is impressive. But after a few minutes it"s dreadful- fatiguing and depressing. There's no real nuance or contrast. EVERYTHING sounds TOO LOUD.
This sound is designed for earbuds , blue tooth , etc. - short term listening. For people who want to sit and enjoy the richness and detail of an album on at least a half decent system, it's audio death.
