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In Reply to: RE: BIG DIFF!! posted by Awe-d-o-file on February 23, 2015 at 09:01:19
Sheffield Lab must have used very poor tape recorders. Nowadays, people think high-speed analog tape sounds better than vinyl. Furthermore, Reference Recordings made all of their original vinyl from high-speed analog tape and their LPs sound as good or better to me than Sheffield Lab LPs.
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It's not a question of whether high speed tape sounds better than vinyl. It's a question of adding another layer of sound processing, in this case introducing the sound of a tape recorder before cutting the lacquer. It is axiomatic, at least in the analog domain, that every layer of sound processing can be heard, at least by some of us.The Reference Recordings, of course, are excellent but they sound different then the Sheffield D2Ds. It's hard to make comparisons for the recorded material was different as were the venues, very different. But the D2Ds have a (excuse me here) directness that is apparent in the quick dynamics and musical textures.
I have no doubt that the Sheffield group used a fine tape recorder. Before recording as Sheffield they recorded as Town Hall records via tape using David Wilson's recorder which made some great recordings for Wilson's label and was used later in the Moscow Sessions disks. I don't know, but I would not be surprised if they used that excellent recorder as back up for the D2D series.
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I can't imagine Doug using anything less than a Ampex ATR-102.I'll ask him next time I see him.
Or you could call and ask him.
(805) 640-2900
Tre'
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"Still Working the Problem"
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