"David" wrote in message
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David,

For some reason my reply to the thread isn't posting so I'll try a new
thread :

http://www.metropolis-group.co.uk/services.php?m=1&p=11


Of course direct-to-disc was the only method of recording for the first 60
years or so of the recording industry, and we all know how great all those
early recordings sound ;-)

I can remember when direct-to-disc recordings had a brief resurgence in the
1970s. I didn't buy any because they were expensive and because the music on
them wasn't the sort of music I was interested in. They reviewed well, but
the point was made that cutting an LP side in one take is effectively a live
performance with no opportunity to do any subsequent editing. That puts
pressure on the musicians to give it their all for as long as it took, and
many reviewers felt that to be rather more significant in making the "sound"
of the disc than anything to do with the technical issue of missing out the
tape generation.

I was, I have to say, amused by this quote from the web-page for which you
posted the link.

quote
"I don't know why this ancient technology of wavy grooves and a disc works
so well, but it catches the sound of a room and a performance in a way that
tape and digital can't, even at super high resolution. I mean," says Miles
Showell, pioneer of our live cutting service.
unquote

As Mandy Rice-Davies once said, "he would say that, wouldn't he?"

David.