Digitally recorded lps?

Remember the man that had to cross a cow to the other side of the river... digital: it can't be done, it doesn't work.

Now a digitally recorded and mastered vinyl record is a thing of beauty since it has all of the purported fauls of digital plus all the beauty of warps and surface noise of te LP. What more could an audiophile want?

Among analogue buffs digitally recorded or remastered L.P's tend to generally be avoided.Having made that statement I confess to just having listened to The Beatles Let it Be(Naked)and found it very good indeed.This is because I believe now with 24-bit PCM masters you can press good records with adequate bandwidth,and remember you are always stuck with having to downsample to 16-bit for CD and this has not sounded that good on vinyl.As far as 1-bit DSD on vinyl is concerned I was not impressed with it's very obvious sonic deficiencies and it can't get better than it is.From about 20-bit PCM and upwards should sound good on Vinyl.Not as good as analogue though.

The first one I recall is Ry Cooder's "Bop Til You Drop." At the time I remember thinking how dynamic the sound was, this was back in the 70s.

Yes, these would be DDA or DAA recordings. Not everything sounded great in the early days of digital, as recordists were still learning how to handle the new technology. But the best of them should tell you something about the alleged defects of digital. Plus, once it's converted to analog and pressed into vinyl, you get the phase-related distortion, subtle speed variations, and other artifacts that contribute to vinyl's pleasing sound.

The truth is,that some labels were better than others.In the classical genre the EMI digital lp's were terrible.The Telarcs were quite good,and some labels,like the "New World" catalog were fabulous.Same thing applies to pop,on certain labels.In the lp digital domain it is quite simply a crap shoot.Also,it depends on your system,and how critical one is.

Best!