jwhitmor wrote:I was thinking more about getting access to the recording studio digital master sesson recordings, as opposed to what I download now, which I suspect are FLAC files ripped from a CD.
If the FLAC's are official releases from the band (like often found on CDBaby inde groups, especially Jazz), they are from the masters. FLAC's ripped from CD are not acceptable other than for sharing on Usenet and even more and more of those are being ripped from vinyl and not the CD!