all the more reason why its esssential to properly archive origional
vintage master tapes [and multitracks]..

its really not good enough to say

"oh well the tapes disintegrated into a mush of mildew & rust..
but we can always master a CD from a mint vinyll LP!!!"


not much use if the LPs were over-compressed,
riddled with distortion from knackered worn out metal pressing stamps
and pressed badly onto cheap noisy recycled vinyll..