WD SUT's

[Richard]

Hi Bob, ah, sorry, I didn't realise the brightness is just on vinyl and that your digital is fine. That's still a mystery then and would never occur to me as mine's the other way around with vinyl being a bit warm.

Mine depends on recording though. Older transfers to CD from the late 80's and 90's seem much more in agreement with the vinyl and sometimes difficult to separate when casually listening (thinking Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchel, Al Stewart etc here). Newer CDs and "remastered" CDs from the last 10 years or so seem to be more dynamic and recorded at a higher level, such as Kill to get Crimson where I bought both, and new CDs where I definitely have to turn the volume down a notch or two after playing older recordings.

I doubt there's much wrong with your ears as you're clearly hearing relative differences and if your records are worn I'd expect them to sound less bright and have surface noise.