New Analog Technology???

@mofimadness, your article reminded me of something I read some months back regarding Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) - see link below:

I am squarely in the digital domain these days, but the process described in the article seems intriguing enough.  What’s implied is that the closer one gets to the mother disk, the higher quality the musical reproduction.

Maybe a major tangent - while fidelity is clearly inferior to today’s standards, I am intrigued by the presence of many acoustic non-electronic recordings (Caruso, Louis Armstrong, etc.).  One might argue that subsequent electronic-based technologies always add some level of distortion.  Question:  could one improve on the old Edison cylinder or 78 non-electric technologies and bring them to modern standards?

Just a thought.

Gorm

One duo is releasing a new song on a 4 minute cylinder.

And Vulcan is releasing something.

I'm squarely in the "sounds like he's invented the record player" camp.

Velly intaresting!

My brother-in-law and fellow audiophile just clued me into this alleged new analog recording & reproduction process. There’s really not a lot of information to go on for this Pinnacle method. It sounds a little like Mobile Fidelity’s Ultradisc One-Step process stamped on aluminum discs, rather than PVC. I’d be interested in learning what advantages, if any, aluminum would have over PVC LP’s. One question I would have for Mr. T Bone is: why have an old croaker like Mr. Zimmerman re-record some of his music to debut this alleged new process? Even in his prime, Mr. Zimmerman wasn’t exactly noted for being an accomplished musician or a fine vocalist. Now, he seems to have learned how to keep his guitars in tune and stay in key, for the most part, but he sounds more like an old bullfrog than ever. Don’t get me wrong! I love Dylan! I’ve got some of his older albums. However, his "music", so to speak, was always about his powerful lyrics; not musicianship. Those lyrics, simple tunes that any backyard guitarist could play and sing and the 60’s are what propelled him to the Pinnacle of fame.

The HDvinyl process of using a laser to cut a spiral groove in a ceramic disk to make a stamper good for thousands of vinyl pressings without degradation would be a major advance in analog mastering! NO MORE LACQUERS!