New LP's made from analog or digital masters

Quick question. Are the new LP's coming out made from analog or digital masters? Just wondering.

bostonbean10-27-2009 8:44pm

paulfolbrecht Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 603 posts 10-28-2009 at 02:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Search the archives. Most new stuff is digitally mastered at hi-rez. It does not sound as good as analog mastering today. I have several digitally-mastered albums that are almost inextinguishable from the redbook version played on a very good DAC.
paulfolbrecht Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 603 posts 10-28-2009 at 04:47pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete "inextinguishable"? Thanks, Mr. Spell Checker!
paulfolbrecht Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 603 posts 10-28-2009 at 04:50pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete "Those must be the ones that are not warped and do not have a lot of surface noise that many new record buyers these days seem to complain about." Some new vinyl does have that problem. For example, spent $50 on a great Ray Brown 45 recently, did not notice till I opened it after several weeks that one side of record one is 1/4" higher than the other. Amazing part is it still sounds great. One example off the top of my head of something digitally mastered that sounds like CD is Tigerlily (Merchant). (I am assuming it was digitally mastered - if not I am going to look stupid.) Both versions sound quite good but I am hard-pressed to prefer the vinyl.