Secrets from the groove

摘要

Reader Julian Ashley chokes on the idea of new LPs being cut from commercially pressed CDs. 'Tell me it isn't true...' he asks in the Yearbook 2009 Sound Off pages. I also choked when I heard what the engineers at Air were saying [see HFN Nov "09]. If the only available source is a CD, I thought, why not just buy the CD? Curiosity aroused, I dug out my original notes on LP know-how from what has since become known as the 'golden age of vinyl. [See box-out p20].