The eponymous album by Christopher Cross is another from the dawn of digital recording.   Despite using an early digital recorder, in fact, only analogue releases (LP, Cassette, 8-track) were available between 1979 and the first CD in 1984.

“The Christopher Cross album was recorded at Warner Bros. Records, Amigo Studios in 1979.  The album master that was used for cutting lacquers was mixed in Studio E on a Harrison Console by Chet Himes.  The flat master is somewhat unique in that it was recorded on a model 3M 81 tape deck, one of the first commercially available digital recorders. Similarly to the Mitsubishi machines of that era, converters were built into the deck and there is no digital input or output from the deck. The internal sample rate was a non-standard 50 kHz, and the bit depth was 16 bits.  Anti-aliasing filters were nine pole minimum-phase elliptic filters. Since there was no opportunity to recover the digital data directly from the deck, the analogue output was captured at 192 kHz 24 bits. In the re-mastering process that archive file was used in conjunction with an analogue processing chain for EQ and limiting, comprising Universal Audio 2192 DAC and ADC each side of a Manley stereo variable MU mastering edition limiter and Avalon AD2077 equalizer”.