I still have a sealed copy of Dave Grusin Discovered Again. Also have an unsealed copy I have listened to. I did sell one of two copies of the original Lincoln Mayorga DtoD with the Scully lathe on the cover for over $300. I can't understand why anyone would have paid that much for it. As impressive as it was when it first came out, musically it is pretty stiff and that is understandable given what's involved in making a DtoD. Interestingly, when that first one came out, a good friend of mine invited me over to his house to listen to a new recording. He cued up a 15 ips tape on his ReVox and hit play. My jaw hit the floor. I asked when he recorded that and asked if he could make me a copy. "I'll do better than that" he said. "I'll give you the master". That's when he handed me a copy of the record. That was in the early 1970's in a college town hungry for audio equipment. More crappy speakers were sold by means of using that DtoD as a demo source than you can imagine. All the audio stores had a copy and I swear you could hold them up to the sky and see light coming through the grooves, they were played that frequently.
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.