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Originally Posted by MC5C
... there haven't been widespread creation of pure analog recordings (analog tape to analog master to vinyl) since digital mastering became common, maybe in the 1980's...
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In the early 80s it became common to cut lacquers for LPs by running the master analog tape through a digital delay to the cutter head, while the actual analog audio only went to the preview circuitry. So your supposedly all-analog vinyl actually wasn't. And after the first run of lacquers for a release, the masters were dubbed to Sony 1610 or 1630 digital cassettes, and any lacquers for subsequent pressings were made from those.