I agree with Lugnut. There are excellent examples of both analog and digital recording. There are also less than stellar examples of either as well. I guess I'll have to get a vinyl preamp and break out my LPs again to see what the fuss is about. The last time I listened to vinyl, it was on a system much less accurate than I have now. I really did like the sound of vinyl but only about 30% of the LPs I bought sounded good. Most had so much surface noise, so many clicks and pops and so much distortion that they were painful. Combine that with the inevitable deterioration in spite of the great care I was giving them and I opted for digital. I think I now have a digital system that would rival most analog systems but I guess I should probably revist the issue just to make sure.
Digitally remastered vinyl?
I've noticed a quite a few jazz titles on vinyl which claim to be "digitally remastered", as if that is something good. These titles usually came out in the early eighties. As a vinyl nut, would I really want an LP where the music went through an A to D and then D to A conversion using eighties technology? Were the pro's using 24/96 or better back then? How do these remasters sound?