Doug Sax passes away
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He really was "the man" to so many of us who used to hang on his every word back in the day. It took guts and courage to tell the industry it had its head up its ass when it came to CD and "perfect sound forever" and digital was in its nascent stages. In fact his mastering business failed as a result of the digital revolution, but he had the vision to believe it would be revived with time because of the advantages inherent in the medium, and he was of course, correct. I have all his original Sheffield direct to disk LPs. In fact, when I brought a 1000 CDs to Princeton Records few months ago for cash, it included most of the Sheffields that I had on CD as well, as I learned a long time ago that playing them for reasons other than convenience, was a waste of time as long as I still had my Sheffield LPs. RIP Doug.
Doug Sax was an inspiration to me, part of the reason I developed a mastering operation.
RIP Doug..
RIP Doug..
+1. From my perspective, his most memorable quote was in a somewhat recent TAS interview, where he said something like "It's sad that the LP is the highest resolution, mass-market format we have". Wise words; I need to find the exact quote, but I am pretty sure I haven't tainted it that much - it really stuck with me back then.
Doug's LPs at Sheffield Lab are legendary, starting with the S9 D2D in 1968. I have most of the LPs and some of them were demo LPs by dealers when I started the hobby. Later on, friends would alert me that some pop LPs mastered at Sax's Mastering Lab sounded exceptional, like James Taylor's JT and Linda Ronstadt's What's New. If only all records went through his lab...
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Very sad to hear this
. I still play most of my Sheffields and they still make me shake my head in wonderment. RIP Doug Sax.
. I still play most of my Sheffields and they still make me shake my head in wonderment. RIP Doug Sax.Similar threads
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