Why not copy the greats- vinyl LP question


When LP's are reissued, why are some of the great interpretations of classic music not just copied?  For example Led Zeppelin II- I would love the RL-"hot" mix but cant swing $500+ for a less than optimal copy.  Why is there not someone looking into recreating  products like these?
ericblack
When the world went digital, record labels had their analogue masters transferred to digital tape. These became the new masters. As digital technology progressed, higher bit and sample rates were utilized.

Jimmy Page did go back to the analogue source tapes, which allowed him to remix. But, these tapes were transferred to digital. There's a very good reason for this besides being easier to work in the digital domain. Nobody would want these old magnetic tapes threaded through various ATR's and shuttled back and forth during a mixing session.
 

Classic Records redid the Zeppelin catalog in the early-2000's, and those pressings are now worth a fortune (Classic even made them available as single-sided 45RPM LP's!). Why? Because they sound better than the originals, all of them. Hardcore collectors who own both Robert Ludwig-mastered Atlantic/Swan Song LP's and the Classic Records reissues have compared multiple copies. Classic offered the complete set in a miniature flight case, and those sell for more than most of us have spent on our hi-fi's.

Classic was granted access to the original analogue masters, from which Bernie Grundman made new lacquers. Grundman, in one of the videos about the new Analogue Productions reissue of Kind Of Blue (which he again mastered, having done the same for Classic in the late-90's), states that the idea that analogue tapes deteriorate by the simple passage of time is a myth.

QRP---Analogue Production's in-house record pressing facility---is making some of the best LP's in the entire history of recorded sound. The way the LP's are pressed, every LP is in-effect a white hot stamper record. Analogue Production's Chad Kassem is deadly serious about making the best LP's humanly possible, and the ones I own are worth every penny. Is $35 a disc too much to ask for an LP? That's a lot cheaper than the same record from Better Records. I dare anyone to compare an Analogue Productions reissue to a white hot stamper version of the same title. Go ahead---prove me wrong. 
@bdp24 
Do you know how many LPs of an artist Analogue Productions typically issues? 
How many units, as they say in the biz.

so, wow..for the price of …a pair of Moabs, a dedicated audiophile / music lover can amass a vast collection of what 10-20 xxx hot stampers from better records… Wow….

I can see the stampede in the distance now, let me step away from the cliff.

Chad is great, creating something great and new. All his 45 rom stuff is revelatory….
the business model is tough, look what happened to Classic…busted pressing unauthorized copies….