My first Sheffield was Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues, which I purchased at Opus One in Pittsburgh in 1973. I've enjoyed many, particularly the Harry James and Erich Leinsdorf leading the LA Philharmonic in Debussy's Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. Other D2D's are Virgil Fox on Crystal Clear Records playing the Fratelli organ at the Crystal Cathedral, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Louis Bellson Note Smoking on Discwasher's label. My analog setup is a Linn LP12 with Cirkus and Lingo, an Ekos arm and Akiva cartridge feeding a Clearaudio Balance phono stage, Parasound Halo P7, Classe CA-5200, and Revel Performa F30's and a Performa B15 sub.
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.
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.