Sheffield Lab Direct to Disc listing

[goonybird]

Had a couple of these for years and tried them out on CJ system. Certainly sound way better now than years ago on inferior systems
These have to be the nearest thing to being there.
Don't understand the current fixation of R2R Tapes when these are available?
Started picking up some more including the Drum record and a couple of Harry James to add to existing Lincoln Mayorga III and Thelma Houston pressure Cooker.
One box has an early listing of releases, hope this helps

Sheffield Lab

1 Lincoln Mayoga and Distinguished Colleagues Volume III
2 Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker
3 The Kings James Version - Harry James and His Big band
4 Brahms Variations on a Fugue on a theme by Handel; Chopin Mazurka in A Minor
5 Dave Grusin - Discovered Again
6 Comin' From a Good Place - Harry James and His Big Band
7 Wagner: Excerpts from Die Walkure, Tristan and Isolde, Gotterdammerung, and Siegfried
8 Prokofiev: Excerpts from the Ballet, Romeo and Juliet
9 Confederation - Larry McNeely, Geoff Levin, Jack Skinner
10 Michael Newman - Classical Guitarist
11 Still Harry After All These Years - Harry James and His Big band
12 New Baby - Don Randi and Quest
13 Growing Up In Hollywood Town - Lincoln Mayorga and Amanda McBroom
14 The Sheffield Drum Record - Jim Keltner and Ron Tutt
15 West Of Oz - Amanda McBroom and Lincoln Mayorga
16 Michael Newman's Second Album
17 Tower Of Power Direct

[admin]

Will have to check some of these out.

As for the obsession of R2R. I think there a few holdouts but they are a rare breed. I remember seeing some company selling high quality R2R recordings at something like $300 per album. No thank you.

[Joe Appierto]

Many are actually quite a bit more than $300.

The most expensive I've seen was $1.500 but I have no idea how high it really goes. Most appear to be from $500 to $1,000.

https://elusivedisc.com/search.php?sear ... l$2520Tape

[admin]

Well, if I ever think about getting a R2R player, I will just come back here so that I can quickly talk myself out of it!

Yeah, that seems absolutely crazy. Not sure how they justify the price as the R2R tape itself is not that expensive to produce.

[Joe Appierto]

You're right -- you have to wonder how they can justify the astronomical prices. Granted, it's a niche market but still...

[goonybird]

Since the original post I have gone a bit mental, in looking for, and buying the other early releases,
Price seems good value at around UK £20.

[admin]

My personal cutoff considering a purchase for a single album is around $30. I just can't really justify spending more, especially these days when there is more music available to stream (essentially free) than I have time to listen.

[goonybird]

Added some more. Now have first 10x releases plus more. Also picked up a Thelma Houston Pressure Cooker Re-Release no ST200 Be interesting to compare both releases

[goonybird]

Another 5x discs today.

Updated production list
1 Lincoln Mayoga and Distinguished Colleagues Volume III
2 Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker `
3 The Kings James Version - Harry James and His Big band
4 Brahms Variations on a Fugue on a theme by Handel; Chopin Mazurka in A Minor
5 Dave Grusin - Discovered Again
6 Comin' From a Good Place - Harry James and His Big Band
7 Wagner: Excerpts from Die Walkure, Tristan and Isolde, and Siegfried
8 Prokofiev: Excerpts from the Ballet, Romeo and Juliet
9 Confederation - Larry McNeely, Geoff Levin, Jack Skinner
10 Michael Newman - Classical Guitarist
11 Still Harry After All These Years - Harry James and His Big band
12 New Baby - Don Randi and Quest
13 Growing Up In Hollywood Town - Lincoln Mayorga and Amanda McBroom
14 The Sheffield Drum Record - Jim Keltner and Ron Tutt
15 West Of Oz - Amanda McBroom and Lincoln Mayorga
16 Michael Newman's Second Album -Italian Pleasures
17 Tower Of Power Direct
18 Strauss and Dvorak / Steinhardt, Mayorga / Romantic Music for Violin and Piano
19 Schubert Sonata in A major for Piano , Jerome Rose Pianist
20 The Sheffield Track Record for Component Testing
21 The Name Is Makowicz - Adam Makovicz Pianist
22 Mozart; Greig / Chicago Symphony Winds / Serenade No. 11; Four Lyric Pieces
23 James Newton Howard & Friends
24 Stravinsky, Debussy / Leinsdorf, Los Angeles PO / Firebird Suite; Afternoon of Faun

S10 The Missing Link Volume II - Lincoln Mayorga

TLP 27 Various / MoscowPO: Leighton Smith; Kitayenko / The Moscow Sessions

ST200 Thelma Houston & Pressure Cooker Re-Issue

[goonybird]

Just to update I now have the original Sheffield Lab releases no 1 to 24
Some of the later ones from TLP25, I have had to go CD due to the high price for the Vinyl
Only tlp28 CD28 to get

CD25
CD26
TLP 27 & CD27

CD29
TLP30
TLP31
CD32
CD33
TLP34
CD35
S10
ST200

[admin]

Wow. Building a very nice collection there. How have the prices been? I know we discussed that earlier in the thread.

[goonybird]

Most of the early Vinyl £10-£30 Highest paid was £45 for the Drum Record on Vinyl.
The later Vinyl TLP26 onwards are £75-£250
So most of my later ones are bought on CD for £10-£20
Just bought the last one needed CD28 so will stop there.

[AnotherJohnson]

I bought most of these as they were released.
It was fun to collect them.

I bought my first LP12 after starting the collection. The LP12 gurus in the UK thought they (and all other audiophile records) were horrible. I remember a story from a show where some fellow brought his favorite and asked to hear it on the latest gear. The story varies … it might have been Ivor, or Colin, or maybe someone else. Whoever it was, he took the disk, looked at the label, commented “you should bin this one,” and pitched it like a frisbee to the far side of the auditorium.


In hind sight, I don’t play any of these very often (really only when someone else wants to hear one). When I do play them, I am far more sensitive to the pressure on the performers and cutting crew. There is a tension that I sense, and it grates on me.