Thanks. I deliberately did not do my own research on this one since thought
that the ARSC list seems to always have someone on it who has some personal
history with whatever topic is raised and is willing to share it. In this
case, I guess not, but I do appreciate your pointer towards the facebook. I
had kind of suspected that it was somewhat of a bogus term and so I am glad
to have to have this confirmed. I have at least one other LP on Norgran or
a label associated with Granz that uses this epithet to describe the
recording technology. I wonder how widespread its application was.

Peter Hirsch

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Maurice Mengel <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> through google i found this
>
>  The label claimed proprietary technology that turned out to be elaborate
> > in name only: Muenster Dummel High Fidelity was the fanciful name Norman
> > Granz himself put on his records. (“Muenster was my favorite cheese and
> > Ernie Dummel was one of my engineers,” he confessed to writer John
> > McDonough years later. “No one knew what it meant but it sounded
> > impressive.”)
>
>
> source: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=381834832451
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Peter Hirsch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I have an LP album (Clef MG C-670) titled "Lionel Hampton Big Band",
> > complete with David Stone Martin cover art. What puzzles me is the text
> in
> > the upper right corner of the album front that says "Muenster-Dummel
> Hi-fi
> > recording". I am not familiar with Muenster-Dummel. Was it a person,
> > process, piece of equipment, pseudonym or what?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter Hirsch
> >
>