There are some direct cuts being produced now. I have a copy of The Syd Lawrence Orchestra which is superb, and interesting in that it is a double album, one the direct cut, the other recorded onto reel to reel first. Both from the same session.
“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”
Hunter S Thompson