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Having done both (I run an LP mastering operation)

Posted by Ralph (M) on June 25, 2015 at 09:20:52

In Reply to: Analog .vs Digital Mastered Vinyl posted by jaydacus on June 24, 2015 at 15:42:58:

- I can tell you that if the producer of the LP has any common sense, then the LP mastering engineer is working with the master file that has not been adulterated with some of the DSP that infects CDs.

At the very most the only processing in the file should be normalization.

Quite often the source file has greater resolution- 24 bits, maybe 88KHz or 96KHz scan frequencies, that sort of thing. Some of the higher scan frequencies like 96KHz don't break down well to Redbook and so don't sound much better at all (on CD), even though the source file is quite a bit better.

So under these circumstances its usually pretty easy to turn out a project that can sound better than the same thing on CD. The LP mastering system has wider bandwidth and amazing dynamic range- much more than most people realize. The limitation of the LP is in playback, not record.

Now if the producer of the LP is an idiot, he will have given us the same master file as used for the CD. At that point the LP will sound nearly identical.

So as others have pointed out, there is no hard and true answer here.

Edits: 06/25/15

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