When you digitize a vinyl with flat or compressed brick wall sound mix it will appear as more dynamic because the software detects all the pops and scratches as more details and musical information which it "thinks" belongs to the musical mix, however in reality all it is is just added vinyl noise, pops and scratches. So the vinyl kind of disguises an originally flat mix with pointier wave forms and tones down the overall sound stage a bit. What it will sound like to the human ear is an other story and a bit of a subjective evaluation. This doesn't say you couldn't compare vinyl to vinyl with similar music and brick wall vs not brick wall squashed mixes on them. I don't think there are any "magical" short cuts for more DR in the sound mix of the same sound mastering/mixed album by simply changing the format. You can't recreate something that isn't there from the beginning.
Oxygene 3 I think has got very good compositions and choices of instruments.
It deserves better then this. If it could have a more vivid, detailed, dynamic, deeper, wider and multi-dimensional sound then why shouldn't it?
You wouldn't listen to a bombastic movie soundtrack through a smartphone speaker would you?
So the best thing JMJ could do now is a DVD release with dts 5.1 surround and start all over from scratch, from the original master.
How about maybe take help from someone who
really knows how to NOT brick wall squash everything or as little as possible?
(Oxy 3 hd 24bit/48 .flac)
