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> But a few specialty houses (...) have long advocated for the warmth of analog. “Not that you can’t make good records with digital, but it just isn’t as natural as when you use the original tape,” says Bernie Grundman

which is absurd. "Warmth" is a kind of distortion, and if a signal is distorted then it's less accurate or "natural"!

They can't claim "fidelity" and "warmth" at the same time. It's one or the other.

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But if analog is what you knew, that wasn't "distortion". That was "natural", because it was what you grew up with. That was the way things were supposed to be.

So "fidelity" means "fidelity to the way I remember" (and like).

Not "natural", "familiar".

Just like people buying yellow lightbulbs because that's how incandescent bulbs used to always be -- actual natural sunlight isn't that yellow. Good LEDs are more "natural", but less "familiar" to people.

On a high quality record with a high quality setup, you can have both. It's because the distortion is really subtle, and hits all the right harmonics. On bass-heavy music it makes the bass sound really nice. The other parts of "warmth" aren't really in my wheelhouse, but it makes the bass in bass music better

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