Overall the Gloversville disc won out for best sound quality. We listened on each others home stereo system as well as studio and office environments for several days. We did A/B comparisons with the original ABC release as well as test pressings from local and MCA pressing plants. Richard and I spent nearly a week cutting reference disc and listening to them in a variety of settings. All the versions with my DWJ scribe are actually done at Half-Speed using JVC's proprietary Stereo Half-Speed Audiophile Mastering System. By then I had been at JVC Cutting Center for 5 years and we had made the move from Quadraphonic mastering to the newly emerging Audiophile world. When MCA acquired the ABC label catalogue Richard saw a chance to remaster one of his favorite projects that he felt had room for improvement in sound quality. Poco "Legend" engineer and producer Richard Sanford Orshoff and I had been friends and worked on several projects for years when we got the opportunity to remaster Legend. You can see examples in the images section of my bio listing on - Darrell Johnson After that I began mostly using DWJ with a closed loop on each of the letters. I only did a few in the early period (1970 & 71 using only block script. I used several different scribes when I first began there, D. We had no one using a scribe of DWI the only other scribe from the studio during that period would be B.D.I. I was the chief mastering engineer at MCA Recording Studios during the DECCA/MCA transition period. WB, it is Darrell Johnson from the Discography site. Though the differences are subtle they are more open sounding as well as having extended bottom and top end. Though they are not pressed on JVC's high quality special virgin vinyl that was used for MOFI releases they were made with an improved higher quality compound than conventional commercial releases at MCA. Click to expand.Poco "Legend" engineer and producer Richard Sanford Orshoff and I had been friends and worked on several projects for years when we got the opportunity to remaster Legend.
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