Peter Ledermann who runs the highly regarded Soundsmith cartridge retipping and vintage equipment repair service has a side project called DirectGrace Records . Peter makes D2D recordings of artists performing in his showroom. The profits from the sales of the LPs go to helping children in need in Third World countries. For a donation Peter will also custom cut a dub of any of his recordings. A dub is a 12" lacquer cut from the master tape and is usually used for checking the sound of the recording. When the Connecticut Audio Society visited Soundsmith last year Peter cut two tracks from guitarist John Hart at 45RPM and then played it for us. It was an astounding experience to hear a first generation disc. There was no surface noise at all - according to Peter a new dub has a signal to noise ratio of 90db. I've never heard anything like it.
Anybody own any direct-to-disc LP's?
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I remember in the mid 70's direct-to-disc LP's were being touted. As I can remember, the concept sure sounded like a good idea. I was in college and had just bought my first receiver back then and could barely afford cut-outs or promotional LP's from my local record store. No way could I afford the premium prices for the direct to disc LP's. Decades later when I eventually found my way to high end audio, direct-to-disc had long vanished. Were they that good?
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I remember in the mid 70's direct-to-disc LP's were being touted. As I can remember, the concept sure sounded like a good idea. I was in college and had just bought my first receiver back then and could barely afford cut-outs or promotional LP's from my local record store. No way could I afford the premium prices for the direct to disc LP's. Decades later when I eventually found my way to high end audio, direct-to-disc had long vanished. Were they that good?
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