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The very best sound: Direct to Disc

Since I got a new cartridge (Clear Audio Virtuoso) i’ve rediscovered the Sheffield and RR Direct Disc albums in my collection.  
Wow! they put everything else to shame.  I picked up about twenty Sheffield D2D’s when Tower Records went out of business for a song (no pun intended.) I’m just now listening to them and find there’s nothing that sonically compares.  They’re just more real sounding than anything else.  Not spectacular but realistic.   
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mijostyn
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I have a picture of Lewis Armstrong and his band blowing their horns into big plywood horns with the lacquer lath just below. Now that is D2D.!
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I have a bunch of them. Whether I like them or not depends on the music.
The Best Sheffield disc is Tower of Power Direct. JVC did D2D's with Lee Ritenour. They are excellent. The others I rarely listen to. Generally the sound is much better as there are fewer analog steps and the Mastering engineer is hearing the real thing while he is mixing. Today with digital recording once the music is in numbers you can take all the steps you want without degradation. The only problem left is that the engineer is remote to the recording and how he mixes it depends on his own interpretation and the system he is listening on.  
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