DMM Blue Note LPs

[MagicAlex]

I found a couple of sealed Blue Note 'Direct Metal Mastering' LPs in a shop yesterday for a small price and picked them up. Got two Stanley Turrentine LPs, 'Jubilee Shout' (one of my favorite Turrentine sessions) and 'Joyride' They were copyrighted 1984 & 1986 and say 'Original Historical Master Tape' on the back covers.

Can anyone tell me a little bit more about the DMM series of LPs? Sound wise, how do they stack up with the BN Connoisseur series CDs? How are they mastered and so forth? Why does one of them say it's digitally transferred? Do they have any collectable value at all?

Thanks in advance for any info!

[Sckott]

Most of them are mastered fairly well, but on opinion, I would say that in many cases, I've heard better on CD or DAD or even the Classic Recs 45RPM'ers. It's a mixed bag, and the DMM's aren't amazing, but they sound good.....

[SVL]

I only heard this one Blue Note DMM, which was a Stanley Jordan album - not very good. Had an 'audiophile" sticker on it.

Several "audiophile" reissues of classic BN titles (yellow stickers that mention original master tapes) that I have sound very good though.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by MagicAlex
I found a couple of sealed Blue Note 'Direct Metal Mastering' LPs in a shop yesterday for a small price and picked them up. Got two Stanley Turrentine LPs, 'Jubilee Shout' (one of my favorite Turrentine sessions) and 'Joyride' They were copyrighted 1984 & 1986 and say 'Original Historical Master Tape' on the back covers.

Can anyone tell me a little bit more about the DMM series of LPs? Sound wise, how do they stack up with the BN Connoisseur series CDs? How are they mastered and so forth? Why does one of them say it's digitally transferred? Do they have any collectable value at all?

Thanks in advance for any info!

I recall that Steve commented on DMM vinyl in one of the threads (do a search). My recollection of what he said is that mastering to metal was difficult.

Audio Ideas magazine's Andrew Marshall once comment that he thought Direct Metal Mastering discs sounded "metallic"!:confused: