Absolutely, slaw! Once Ry (my favorite living guitarist) heard his first Water Lily recording (which prompted him to ask "Why don't my albums sound this good?"), he was determined to be recorded by Kavi Alexander, the label’s owner and recording engineer. Kavi is imo the absolute best recording engineer working today, and perhaps in the entire history of recorded music. To add to his talents, he also has the best recording equipment in existence, all tubed; his microphone power supplies, mic pre-amps, and analogue recorder’s electronics (designed by Tim deParavicini of EAR-Yoshino). Water Lily LP’s are amongst the handful of best sounding recordings ever made, lacking only the last iota of head-snapping transient response (and resulting "immediacy") found in Direct-to-Disc LP’s. On the other hand, Water Lily recordings have the most true-to-life instrumental timbres I’ve ever heard, unmatched by any D2D LP I’ve heard.
The Meeting By The River recording, by the way, earned Kavi a Grammy for engineering the year of it’s release.