Budding audiophile/vinyl questions

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Originally Posted by replicant_argent

With the technology of today, going from digital tracks to LPs is the equivalent of carving your own granite for perfomance tires, isn't it? Taking a very close and accurate recording and translating it to a mechanical and error prone and wearable media? It doesn't make sense to me. Nostalgia aside, I don't think you gain anything. Someone was just telling me the other day some studios still record on magnetic tape and then take that to digitally master the CD. Again... I must be doing logic backwards.

agreed... but i do think that the process itself can be the reward. nothing necessarily gained in regards to clarity of sound... and it can be a PITA for sure but analog can be fun and there is a certain warmth that it provides