For over 50 years, Rushton Paul and his wife share a profound passion for music, cherishing transparency and accuracy of instrumental timbre. Their preference lies in acoustic and classical music, seeking recordings that immerse them in the authentic acoustical space of the musicians. Timbre is critical to them, desiring to hear genuine harmonic overtones of real instruments. Their transition to headphones shifted their focus to transparency, inner detail, timbre, and micro-dynamics, factors that profoundly influence their music enjoyment and assessment.
Go To Original Article NativeDSD continues to earn highest recommendations from me as a preferred source for high resolution downloads. There are some labels they don’t have access to, unfortunately, but their catalog continues to grow with new labels showing up every few weeks. This means their new releases outpace my ability to write about […]
Rush Paul on May 09, 2025
View Original Article For some time I’ve wanted to share with you some of this outstanding music, performance excellence, and superb audio quality coming from Sono Luminus’ ventures with Icelandic composers and performers. Why Iceland? I didn’t have any clear understanding other than that Sono Luminus CEO Collin Rae has some connections there and they […]
Rush Paul on May 09, 2025
View Original Article With such a rich history of music in the western world, it is too easy to get lost in centuries past. We can too easily fail to see the amazing music being written today. With this article, I want to offer up some outstanding music of the 21st Century I’ve been privileged […]
Rush Paul on May 01, 2025
View Original Source David Fung, Evening Conversations. Yarlung Records 2006 2025 (Pure DSD256) Release date: 4-18-2025 I found myself talking recently on the phone with my friend Bob Attiyeh, the creative founder and visionary of Yarlung Records. I’m always intrigued by these occasional calls with Bob. One never knows whence they may wander. That day, Bob […]
Rush Paul on Apr 18, 2025
View on Positive Feedback I unabashedly love listening to early music, from medieval to renaissance. And much of this music is for voices. Not all, by a long shot, but there is a lot that is a cappella. Early music will be the theme of today’s Recent Finds because this is what has consumed much […]
Rush Paul on Apr 08, 2025
View Original Review Those who have travelled with me through my notes on recent finds know that I have eclectic taste in music. I enjoy almost anything acoustic that is well performed and well recorded. Unfortunately, this also means that you have to scan through the album covers to see if there may be anything […]
Rush Paul on Mar 20, 2025
View Original Article “There are good pianists, and then there is Josep Colom.”* A living legend. A creative genius. A brilliantly and entrancingly insightful artist. Spanish pianist Josep Colom is all of that and more. And if you’ve not listened to his recordings, you have been missing some of the greatest musicianship of the last […]
Rush Paul on Mar 14, 2025
Read Original Pure DSD256 from Eudora, Hunnia, Yarlung, and more! I’m catching up… honestly I am. There are many wonderful albums to talk about, more than I can cover in one article. But, I’ll make a start and then add more in a later article. Today, I want to visit several terrific Pure DSD256 recordings […]
Rush Paul on Jan 30, 2025
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! The labels represented in NativeDSD’s […]
Rush Paul on Sep 10, 2024
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! Anna Fedorova is among the […]
Rush Paul on Aug 20, 2024
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! With some of the best […]
Rush Paul on Jul 02, 2024
This is a reposted article originally written for Positive Feedback by our friend Rush Paul. The great team at Positive Feedback, as well as Rush himself, have kindly given us permission to repost this and you can find the original article at this link. Thanks to Rush the PF team! As David Robinson and I […]
Rush Paul on Apr 12, 2024