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In Reply to: The room we are in is the "Vinyl Asylum" and Vinyl is an analog format. posted by Teresa on September 14, 2006 at 12:54:33:
and some that don't.
I have a lot of all-analog LPs that sound terrific, and some that don't.
It doesn't matter whether the music is mastered digitally, analog all-tube, analog solid state, whatever.
What matters is this--did the person/persons doing the mastering give a shit about the job they were doing?
Good mastering is good mastering and bad mastering is bad mastering and it doesn't matter what kind of equipment was used.
Check out the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will The Circle Be Unbroken II sometime. That is one fine-sounding album. Johnny Cash might just as well be in your listening room. The piano on "Little Mountain Church" is so real, it makes my hair stand up.
That's an example of the results obtained when the mastering engineers really care about doing their best.
And it's digital.
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Digitally mastered LPs will sound better than CDs, because the sample rate is much higher. Analog is ideal, but digital LPs are still better than the little plastic discs :)
Good mastering is the key, not format.
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Agreed.
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BTW - Bob Ludwig is a big fan of digital mastering. Not that it matters.
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