A monk is trying to convert me to Analogism.

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_DK said:
I'm afraid those LPs were made from a digital source though... all of the vinyl production is this way nowadays, which is really stupid. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I was getting a quote on the vinyl production pricing list at several big companies and all of them accept CDs only for the master. If you want a master plate to be from an analog source they charge you extra and you'd probably need to bring in your own machine to play the tape.
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yes that's true. A parodox really isn't it?! I don't think that they are even equipped to do it even if you took your own tape machine along. It all ends up as files in their computer unfortunately. I heard of one man (Paul Gold, I think his name is) who will do it pure all the way through. But expensive I fear!
 
I know that there are companies out-there who still press [LPs] straight from the analog master tapes or at least from good 2nd generation copies. Sundazed and speakerscorner come to mind but there are others as well who do reissues quite well.
 
You know, I read that as Anglicanism and I thought, "Doesn't this belong in The Cave?" Time to enzyme my contacts. :p
 
I don't mean to hi-jack this thread but wanted to add another name to the analog masters direct to CD / LP. It's mobile fidelity, http://www.mofi.com/ They're still going strong and have some real nice offerings, like the John Lennon - Imagine discs. Pretty cool, especially that, from what I've read and actually heard, from both CD and LP, they're pretty anal about leaving the original masters alone, which basically means no shitty "digital mastering". Call me a CD convert but I really liked listening back to some of the reissues from MFSL and DCC. It's so different to the mainstream remastered shit outthere. Why couldn't it be like that with all CD's.... Just take an analog master tape and do as little to it as possible when transferring to CD, which is basically what DCC and mobile fidelity does (MFSL). The difference is striking.
 
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