If your vinyl disks sound compressed, might I suggest you look into one of the gates (downward expanders) made dbx, 166, 266 and 1066 in ascending order of price. Of course, like all good equipment, they can be over used to the point of sounding artificial, but used properly they are very transparent

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T. Anderson