I always think that it's funny when people say that something "wasn't mastered for vinyl" or "was only mastered for CD" - not that you actually meant it that way of course - because mastering for vinyl is a process where the audio path has to be much more stringently controlled and restricted than for CD mastering.

I guess my main point was that going back and doing a new master would allow them (potentially, depending on how the album was recorded) to produce a master for vinyl from a higher bitrate than the mastered CD. Also, and I'm not going to claim to be an expert on the matter, but aren't vinyl albums in general mastered with the expectation that there will be a bass boost delivered by the preamp (for exactly the reasons you mentioned elsewhere in the post)? Unlike Packgrog, I'm not going to argue one way or the other for the superiority of vinyl (in general, I'm with you on the matter!), but we can at least all agree that, assuming one wants the album in every medium to sound its best, a distinct master must be produced for each?

Matt