I have never noticed any obvious compression here.I just digitised Pyramid and been busy with Audacity. If anything it suffers from excess dynamic range. Very quiet parts with surface noise and just a couple of places the cartridge lost its grip on transients and you can see the mistrack
I had completely forgotten that one from my Uni days and I liked it a lot back thenAnd currently on Space "Magic Fly", original PYE pressing. Bit of a lost classic perhaps?
The early ADCs were poor, especially at higher frequencies. Also the engineer cutting the record would turn down hot treble to avoid the cutter burning outTBH always wondered about analogue to digital mastering of original recordings. Deep Purple Machine Head sounds great on vinyl but enamel etching on CD. Were masters recorded 'bright' to allow for (I'm presuming) cutting head losses at high freqs? Namely to cut a master, the forces involved to cut high freqs at high amplitude compared to bass required some 'extra oomph' due to the forces involved?
DB never seemed to be at all bothered about recording quality. His output has never featured in HiFi showsWith Bowie the loss is considerable and obvious to the extent that you wonder how the "professionals" ever accepted the remaster.