Old vs. new
As roberjerman was eluding to, these reissues which are now digital come from old analogue tapes which may have deteriorated, or even been lost. So whatever tapes they can find are used to release the album on new vinyl. Of course, the quality of these tapes will never equal the original masters from years gone by. |
lowrider57 ... to reissue an album, a digital file is created from the analogue tape and becomes the new master.Not necessarily. Some reissues are made from analog tape. |
What they said. Many old records from the golden age of vinyl sound way better than anything recorded now. And many originals sound better than repressings. My feeling is that once any recording is digitized for remastering, the essential essence of the original is gone. Check out Acoustic Sounds for reissues. |
A major focus of Michael Fremer in his LP reissue reviews is the provenance of the tape used as the source for the new mastering of an old album. Seeing that a reissue is made from a digital source automatically disqualifies the LP for me. What's the point of buying a digital LP?! New album releases on LP is a different matter, in that the corresponding CD in all probability contains far more electronic manipulation, and sounds worse, than the LP. While some contemporary recordings are made on analog multitrack recorders, many are done digitally. Not a desirable situation for music lovers with an audiophile bent who prefer the sound of analog, with it's well-known faults, to most digital, but that's out of their control. It's often a matter much like elections, voting for the lesser of two evils ;-) . |
Are we the humans digital or binary? Our ''notional orientation'' always has two sides: old-new; above-below'', ''inside-outside'' etc. etc. Hegel the German philosopher talked about ''opposite terms'' and the ''opposite of the opposite'' till he got in his own labyrinth of ''notions'' with no way out. His ''way out'' was '' the unity of the opposites''. His problem was that he overlooked to be talking about expressions or language. Besides ''notions'' are not the things which can be true or false. Those are statements or complete sentences. Those can be true if in correspondence with reality. This means that language and reality are two different domains. Besides there are unknown many languages but only one reality. So ,say, Rauls argument ''in the other side'' will no do. (grin). . |
