DSJR
Major Contributor
Hearing four songs from the first Blue Nile album via 30IPS half inch master tape (ATR 102 I think the machine was) some months before official release, reminded me again of the huge gap between vinyl and master recording - forgotten soon after until a few years later, when another comparison of similar master on same machine, watching and then playing an acetate cut while I was watching and comparing this to the 12" single and then the LP, nearly put me off vinyl for life!!! This after so many years selling and setting up LP12 decks with a variety of arms and pickups..I lived in the UK through that period. I guessed Linn was likely one of them. I didn't have much to do with audiophile cos I didn't have much money.
Linn was a topic in our podcast episode about The Blue Nile first album, in which we also discussed the Rekursiv processor.