Sheffield Lab

Sheffield Lab is the pioneering company that brought audiophile recordings to high profile, international status. In 1968, when the company began recording, long playing records were cut from analogue master tapes. Doug Sax and Lincoln Mayorga had met in the orchestra of Bancroft Junior High School in Los Angeles in 1950. Lincoln, a studio pianist, Doug, a trumpeter and Sherwod, Doug's engineer brother, formed a partnership called The Mastering Lab. Their own label, was named Sheffield Lab after a nearby freeway exit. Sheffield's purist technique consisted of recording directly to the master disc without editing, bypassing the tape recorder. Realistic impact, transparency and immediacy are the characteristics of Sheffield Lab Recordings. Equipment manufacturers and audio enthusiasts found that Sheffield Records not only set the highest audio standard, but were also the ideal tool to demonstrate speaker systems.