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Current recordings on vinyl?

Are current musical artists being recorded in analog at all? I mean, if they are directly recorded to digital, be it pcm or dsd, what is the use of remastering them for vinyl? I have a reasonable collection of old vinyl or reissued...BUT...the primary recording, i.e., master tapes, were analog. Many of these sound great, especially on vinyl.

Take for example, Patricia Barber, Diana Krall, the Mahler symphonies by various orchestras. If they were recorded digitally, they already have the limitations of digital. Vinylizing them doesn't remove that.... does it? It would make more sense to buy on SACD if available, especially if primarily recorded to DSD.
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audiotomb
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Norah Jones was recorded in her Manhattan loft
so I believe it's analog
will have to check the record cover
miner42
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Kenny Wayne Sheppard's "10 Days Out" will be released on Vinyl this march.
jamnperry
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Regardless how it's mastered, I still find vinyl to be consistently better. I have quite a few of both versions and I usually prefer the vinyl. My SACD/CD is really good but I now will always buy vinyl over cd/sacd when given the choice.
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jyprez
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Audiotomb - it is not difficult to do digital recording (or analog for that matter) in odd locations so I'm not sure what your comment that it was done in a loft adds to this? In any case the mastering back at the studio could be anything. Unless they claim "absolute all analog start to finish" you can assume otherwise because that is just how things are done nowadays.
I'm not saying digital mastering of vinyl is bad - it's just not significantly different than having the cd.
stevecham
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The band Low records on analog and their recordings are strictly AAA all the way though.
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