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Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?
RCA,Japan pops to mind.I have a couple.
Roger
Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: There was Sheffield, Century, M&K Realtime (they did a couple of D2D before they were digital
pioneers). I can't name any other specialty labels right off the bat. Didn't some of the majors
experiment with this, maybe just for classical and jazz?
Hmm, I wonder how one could compile a list and maybe cook up an ARSC Journal article. With 25-30
years of distance, the D2D fad was an interesting last hurrah for LPs. Some of the claims were
pretty outrageous -- along the lines of "tape technology hasn't progressed but disc-cutting has
vastly improved." Uh, not true. By the late 70's, the Ampex ATR-100 and then-current Studers had
eliminated scrape-flutter as an issue and one COULD choose to record at 30IPS half-inch 2-track with
no NR and get results that would rival even the best 44.1/16-bit digital systems. But the D2D
records, the best of them, show just how hifi grooved disk recording could get.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "Mike Richter"
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] discography of "direct-to-disk revival"?
> Tom Fine wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Was there ever published a discography or listing of all of the direct-to-disk revival LPs? That
>> was a short-lived fad but there were some great-sounding records made. I have just a handful but
>> I imagine there were maybe a couple hundred made.
>>
>> I would argue that some of those recordings were as good as vinyl could get. It was an
>> interesting time in the recording business because some of the great old-school engineers were
>> still around in top form and there were still jazz and classical artists who could nail it live
>> in the studio in one take, and the studios were past the early and mid 70's "dead coffin"
>> acoustics. Plus that generation of mixing consoles sounded good again in most cases.
>>
>> Interesting -- in a couple of cases I later bought the CD, which was obviously made from a tape
>> run at the time. You can really tell how Dolby A NR on the tape quashes the sound, even when a
>> good CD mastering job was done.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>
> I've a dozen or so of the Sheffield D2D LPs and a couple of the corresponding CDs. Some of the CDs
> are from digital master tapes, though mine were from the analogue masters. The sonic difference is
> easily recognized; my supposition is that it derives from phase shift of overtones.
>
> I've some D2D efforts from other publishers, a few of which are similar in quality to the
> Sheffield but most simply exploit the 'gimmick'
>
> I know of no discography.
>
> Mike
> --
> mrichter@xxxxxxx
> http://www.mrichter.com/
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