CD masters rejected for vinyl production
Reply #22 – 2013-03-17 03:44:21
I think if anyone's truly interested in the bit depths/sample rates of digital masters applied to modern vinyl, we should truly start asking the people currently involved in such production. I'm willing to do my part and start sending some emails to the record companies I get the most vinyl from. Hopefully some others would be agreeable as well. I'm not of mind to make contributions and expend my time and efforts if nobody else cares or just wants to argue and say "prove it," "that's just you," this is too genre-specific," or whatever. I know for a fact that Century Media accommodates (with seeming honesty) such requests. ...might be a good academic exercise to just go ahead and figure out what's customary so everyone here (myself included) can stop insulting one another and move on with real-world evidence. The Krisiun album (Century Media) that I presented in this thread was actually recorded to analogue tape according to the parties involved in the recording process. (What I don't know is if that same tape was used to cut the vinyl...I'm guessing at some point it could have been digitized.) Also the dynamic range of the LP version is very obviously different from the CD. ...if course this has little-to-nothing to do with bit-depths and sampling frequencies, but I think it fairly demonstrates that what we think is "industry standard" could possibly be otherwise...and that such information is not that difficult to obtain.