You wouldn't treat a record the way most people treat cassettes, he observed.

...but, oddly enough, I think the vinyl still has more of a bottom-end kick.

Mea culpa. Can we fix it? Yes we can! I just remembered that I digitised that some years ago using my 40-year-old Connoisseur turntable with a Shure M91ED cartridge through the phono inputs on my little Tascam mixer. So no wonder it's bottom end light! We'll use a proper turntable soon, promise.