Digitally remastered vinyl record? Seriously?

Mapman nailed it. Me, I don't care if it's digital, analog, cassette or 8 track tape, it is all about the music.

What a superb thread. I was wondering about most of the issues raised here, most of which have been answered. Can I just say though that as far as I understand large studios went digital as from the 80's which meant that mainstream albums were nearly all breathed upon by digits - real shame. What I am curious is as to whether the recording was at a higher resolution that found it's way onto red-book CD, therefore, in other words did vinyl continue to have the edge in terms of resolution. If that is the case I guess the vinyl is still worth buying. Reading from this the vinyl pressing were often better 'mixed' than the CD's. I agree with the post about heavy vinyl being largely pointless. I will add that my vinyl front end is significantly better than my digital source and as such getting vinyl whether or not digitally mastered does not change the fact that the LP sounds significantly better than the CD equivalent. I tend to only buy CD's when there is no LP.

I cannot abide digital. I'm referring to CDs right out of the box, untreated. So in that sense I don’t agree it’s all about the music. Did you ever notice that of the three recording/mixing/mastering variations one sees for CDs, you know, the AAD, ADD, and DDD, that AAD sounds the most analog whereas DDD sounds the most synthetic, thin, uninteresting, monochromatic, kind of like papier mâché? And as I intimated earlier digitally remastered cassette tapes actually seem to get the best of both worlds - dynamics, low noise and analog sound.

Hi Geoffkait - am I right to therefore think that casette tapes are therefore a genuine high end music source? or am I reading this incorectly?

Cassettes sound better than CDs.  You can read it any way you prefer.