On 2014-07-03 16:04, michael norman wrote:
On 03/07/14 14:35, Anton Aylward wrote:
While this is relevant to thee and mee and our sampling of those pieces ov vinyl that never made it to CD, much of the mainstream of 'old' music on CD comes from the master tapes and not from replaying vinyl.
Would that that were so but it isn't. Tape degrades, original tape masters can be very hard to find for all sorts of reasons. Responsible people who reissue stuff do it from the best masters they can find, and if they are honest will freely share what they used. There is no standard definition for where a master comes from, for example some companies advertise their product as "from the master tape" without specifying what the origin of that tape might be. It could well be a second or third generation copy used in another country to press an lp or cd.
This is not conspiracy theory, I could point you to some links dealing with all this, but isn't this all off topic ?
True enough. But digital masters do not degrade, neither with age nor with duplication :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)