The very best sound: Direct to Disc

@tomic601 
Outstanding!

Are Mapleshade recordings the digital equivalent of Direct to Disk recordings? 

I have a Rough Trade album and a Amanda Mcbroom album which are very good.Amanda won an Academy Award for writing the song”The Rose”which was the motion picture Bette Middler stared in.

here are some direct to disc labels that are very good.....i have some of each of these.

http://www.directgrace.org/Catalog3.html

https://store.acousticsounds.com/l/4857/Berliner_Meister_Schallplatten

also a recent full orchestral Bruckner 7th direct to disc from DG......

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/berlin-philharmonics-direct-disc-bruckner-symphony-7-box-set

to order....

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/bruckner-haitink.html

then there is the whole Toshiba Pro Use Direct Cut series.....i have all of these.....

https://www.discogs.com/label/299515-Pro-Use-Direct-Cutting-Series

and the Jeton direct to disc series....i have all of these....

https://www.discogs.com/label/300900-Jeton-GmbH

that ought to keep you busy for awhile.

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.