In Reply to: Nonsense.. posted by Frank.. on February 17, 2006 at 03:33:44:
The problem with vinyl is that it's actually at least three - and more typically, five - generations down from the actual master tapes. With typical vinyl records, the master tapes' content gets transferred to what's called a "lacquer". That lacquer is good for only one use: to make a single "master" disk for making "mother" disks from. (One master disk can make dozens of mother disks.) The mother disk is then used to make "stamper" disks - dozens of them. And each stamper disk can press thousands of LP's or 45's. DMM pressings eliminate two of the four intermediate steps.On the other hand, it's much easier to produce a really bad-sounding digital recording than it is to produce a craptacular-sounding analog recording: One tiny slip-up in the digital domain can ruin everything.
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