Which was more accurate.
Dmm vinyl cut.
There are many technical reasons why dmm is but i won t bother going into them here but given that abbey road and so many others have gone back to lacquer it s clear that most current vinyl producers prefer lacquer.
The dmm was more precise with sharper transients and better image edge definition while the lacquer cut was smoother warmer and more pleasing on the ears.
Another argument for the use of dmm is that it removes the need for one stage of the galvanic process.
Direct metal mastering dmm is a system of vinyl cutting developed by neumann and teldec telefunken decca in germany during the 1980s in an attempt to increase the reliability of the cutting and pressing process and circumvent some of the common problems that can occur with conventional lacquer masters.
Dmm lp pressings are sometimes described as having a harshness or forwardness in the high frequencies.
Direct metal mastering dmm is an analogue audio disc mastering technique.
Often the reason for playing a vinyl record is to have the warm and analogue sound that is often not present in a dmm cut.
Vinylcut is a new web database tool that will help the vinyl community to discover and share information on the true source analog or digital and mastering process behind a vinyl record release.
The principle of dmm technology the audio signal coming from the mastering workstation or from a tape is transcribed into a metal master plate through a dedicated dmm cutting head.
The fact the groove is cut to copper a hard metal and not to soft lacquer nitrocellulose supposedly endows dmm vinyl lp with a very different tonality to traditionally manufactured vinyl lp pressings.
After introducing the new vinyl visual mastering system in 2010 a new era of further development opportunities and improvements of the dmm cutting process began.
Rather than cutting the audio to a lacquer coated disc the dmm lathe cuts straight into a copper plated master disc.