> You'll also need a good turntable and pre-amp to get the most out of > the vinyl. When weighing up the cost, bear in mind that the > remastering people producing official CD re-releases will probably be > working from studio master tapes, except for very rare or old > material. > yes, but they normally let a monkey into the studio at some point and it changes all the eq settings and makes it more of a re-(un)mastering. I've heard all the funkadelic records got remastered and they took the 'p' out of the p-funk. > Personally, having looked at the time it would take to record all my > shellac and vinyl, and allowing for the possibility that some subtle > properties of analogue recording would be lost in the transfer, I > decided to keep a couple of turntables around. > yeah - you'll be glad of all those lovely records when you can fit your entire music collection onto a pea and you drop it down a drain or something. cheers matthew
