I was playing some of my old CDs and noticed that one of them was labeled AAD.
In the old days before CDs everything was analogue put on to tape i.e recorded, mixed and finally output to vinyl thus the AAA. CDs where the other medium hence the AAD becoming ADD, DDD as each stage went digital.
I am told that all recordings now (I could be wrong) are fed into an ADC (typically 24/96) put on DAT and mixed digitally. This finally gets downgraded to 16/44.1 when put on to CD. Vinyl is now the other medium thus a DAC would actually be used to get mix to analogue on vinyl.
Can anyone confirm any of this or is it all my imagination that vinyl currently produced actually has a digital source?
