For the vinyl purists out there, isn't it true that vinyl that comes from digital still has the problems associated with digital, and in fact is digital played with a needle? This is like the old AAD cd's only put back on vinyl. It's fake vinyl. The only vinyl I would buy is analog vinyl. I have the mono cd's, they're good but not vinyl.
i'm a vinyl purist.
there are quite a few good sounding Lps sourced from digital recordings. i have many dozens of Lps that come to mind, particularly late 70's and 80's classical digital recordings which sound good. would they sound better if they had been analog recordings? sure, but they were not and if we like the music on vinyl then we have no choice. i have CD's of many of these digitally sourced Lps and the Lps sound better by far.
as far as what a digitally sourced recording does to vinyl in a general sense, there are plenty of opinions, but it just has less meat on the bones and lacks the air, ease, ambient detail, and overall detail. but these things are matters of degree. a digital recording is not an evil thing, it's just less of the good things.
and there are plenty of crap sounding Lps sourced from digital recordings too. too numerous to mention.
but.....to take an analog recording (likely the most significant in history based on interest), dumb it down to digital, and then put it on vinyl.....that cannot ever be as good as keeping it analog. the only excpetion is when the analog tapes are damaged in some way and need digital repairs.
and that is what is a shame about this Beatles set; what it could have been!