Farview
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I guess that's what I have a hard time believing and acknowledging. How does a groove in wax sound like a church/hall/outdoors, etc... it's a damn groove! lol. science.
When they manufacture records, they are just stamping the grooves into a piece of vinyl with a punch press. So, of course you can have a mechanical process reproduce the grooves and it still sounds like what it's supposed to.
Were you under the impression that each record was cut by playing the recording into the lathe? Only the master is done that way (thus the term "mastering"). Then that master is used to make the plates that are used to press the grooves into all the records they produce.