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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:26 -0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:   
      
   > I would take physical over digital.   
      
   If there is an analog format worth resurrecting, it’s tape.   
      
   Vinyl remains stuck in the 1970s, but the humble cassette tape   
   continued evolving long after that, with things like chromiun and   
   barium oxides, metal particles, new kinds of Dolby noise reduction,   
   and what-all.   
      
   Speaking of noise reduction, remember that vinyl has this convoluted   
   thing called the “RIAA equalization curve”. Back in the day, you had   
   ceramic versus magnetic pickups, and one of them had to compensate for   
   the curve, but the other did not (I forget which was which). How could   
   you be sure either way that you were compensating for the curve   
   exactly? You didn’t.   
      
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