https://www.whathifi.com/news/theres-a-new-music-format-that-aims-to-deliver-the-pinnacle-of-sound
Despite just being a PVC acetate it's apparently the "first breakthrough in analog sound reproduction in more than 70 years" and will completely change the way you experience music. On an unrelated note, here's an article about how proficient ghost hunters are at analyzing patterns that aren't there and how they're pretty much full of shit. Bear in mind that absolutely none of this applies to audiophiles, who are indubitably the best and brightest the worlds of music and engineering have to offer.
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Sounds like bullshit for people who spend $50k on carbon fiber hydraulically dampened component racks and little bags of gems to place on your speakers to prevent the perfect tones from running away.
That “pure” “analog” “warmth” of vintage recordings everybody chases with tube amps and vinyl records has nothing to do with tube amps and vinyl records. All great music until the 90s digital loudness wars was recorded and mastered on large-format tape. So why not just listen to it on large-format tape as the artists originally did in studio?
The warmth you’re looking for is called tape saturation and it’s available in 1/4in and 1/2in open-reels.
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