rein-o wrote: Don't remember what I've posted in the past but a major issue of getting into vinyl now is the condition factor, grading is all subjective
and you can get really burned hard and fast.
Its not like it used to be where you had 2 options to buy, record store or record store new or used and you could see in person.
Also a lot of very early CDs use the same tape masters so who cares if you go back to the tape master 20-40 years later, CD was going back to the masters
only 10-20 year old at the time so there is less digital messing with on the transfers.
CHEAP, man are CDs cheap now, one thrift is selling them 5 for a buck once a week, so you can just get as many as you want.
A lot of these old classical recordings are direct from vinyl to CD even official so I don't know how much better you can get them.
Some are from tape masters or even DDD masters so you can't really muck them up much.
Whats the sense of doing ADA for new vinyl, get digital out of the equation and do an AAA analog master, analog remaster to analog vinyl, anything else with
new LPs is just a joke and one isn't getting what they should be getting if that's analog that you are truly wanting.
I personally don’t care if a record had a %100 analog journey from original recording to final pressing. I don’t know why you and other people keep bringing that up. It’s not really possible with a new release unless bands go back to saving up for studio time and recording everything on rare as hell consoles no longer made. It…just doesn’t matter. It’s nice, I guess, a direct to disc recording, an all analog master, but I can’t hear it so I don’t care. Wax has way too much distortion to hear aliasing from digital formats anyway and even if it wasn’t the master is probably 24-bit 96khz anyway which, even in a high end player, is beyond my ears quality-wise.
Verdict: straw man argument. Buy records for the engagement, the physicality, the art, whatever. Just don’t be silly enough to think it’s some uberformat if you only had such and such gear…even million dollar systems have the same pops, the hiss, the grimy “s”s, etc. It’s from the 40s, it does that. And don’t buy them just to frame. That’s what posters are for.
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