Age of masters


Seeing new releases using re-masters which to me means they use the original 40+ year old master and twiddle some knobs.

Do 40+ year old masters still have viable iron oxide?  Would high frequencies suffer? Or do I misunderstand re-mastering?
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Showing 2 responses by lowrider57

Many record labels transferred their analogue libraries to digital to preserve the master.

@chakster 
That's very true. But in some cases, they dare not run a decades old master tape with missing or peeling oxide, or edge damage on an ATR.