How much is about the recording

...we sort of need a few in each gendre, maybe even including Country...

Jamey Johnson "That Lonesome Song".  Album of the year, not one bad cut.

When you finally hear a good direct-to-disk LP, you realize how mediocre most recorded music sounds. But there are almost no direct-to-disk LP’s which contain music you actually want to hear more than once, let alone love.

Finding gear which gives you what is most important to you in music, yet isn’t so "ruthless-revealing" that you become "too aware" of the limited quality of the sound of the music as heard through your system, is a long journey. One of learning what compromises you are willing to make, what you are willing to sacrifice for "the greater good."

Then there are the recordings which sound SO bad that the sound actually makes not just listening to the music, but being able to appreciate it, impossible. There's nothing you can do about THAT.

"When you finally hear a good direct-to-disk LP, you realize how mediocre most recorded music sounds. But there are almost no direct-to-disk LP’s which contain music you actually want to hear more than once, let alone love."

bdp24 spot on as usual.

The D2D LP's I've found over the years are 2nd rate albums (content wise) even from more well known names-pretty much a great sounding snooze fest.

Now if all my Classic Rock, Jazz and Classical were D2D, I wouldn't be able to get out of the house-that would be a problem.

The Audio Fidelity, Command 35MM..etc LP;s from the late 50s & 60's are the next best thing.

Anyone for some tribal drums?