Author: Rush Paul
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.
An Exciting New Release from Yarlung Records in Pure DSD 256 with Quartet Integra Performing Beethoven, Ligeti, and Lefkowitz
View Original Whenever I get to hear something that is so supremely good, and so delightfully performed, with such insight and richness, I feel it warrants a immediate sharing with you. This new Yarlung Records Pure DSD 256 album, released today, is such a recording. Can you tell I’m excited about it? Yes, indeed! You […]
BigRibbons – a New Label To Keep Your Eye On, With Free Sample Download
View Original What a pleasure to hear of a new label with audiophile aesthetics emerging from the greater Los Angeles commercial music community! This was my immediate reaction when I first started talking by phone with Ryan Sillifant, producer, mastering engineer, and performing artist for a new label, BigRibbons, launched by Wes Dooley, founder of […]
Anna Fedorova Returns with Liberté in this New Recording by Jared Sacks
View Original Anna Fedorova is, to me, one of the most exquisite pianists performing today. Her interpretative skills are subtle, inventive, and completely engaging. And her technical skills are simply amazing. When she performs, I just slide into a very happy place listening to her. Her most recent release is delightful. Liberté, Anna Fedorova, Orquesta […]
Recent Finds No. 58 More Nice Adventures with NativeDSD
View Original Once again we have a full measure of excellent recordings released in recent weeks. If I didn’t like them, I would not write about them. And I do like these very much. They start off with an outstanding new recording of trumpet concertos from the inestimable Tine Thing Helseth and Lawo Classics, then […]
Yarlung Pure DSD256 Reissues from the Master Tapes Continues with Orion Weiss
View Original As Yarlung Records celebrates its 20th Anniversary, founder Bob Attiyeh is reissuing in Pure DSD256 some of the 15ips 2-track tape recordings made in earlier years. We’ve previously seen released David Fung’s Evening Conversations (HERE) and coming before long will be Ciaramella’s Music in the Court of Burgundy. But now we have this very excellent recording with pianist […]
Recent Finds No. 56 More Excellent Releases Found at NativeDSD
View Original Offered for your perusal are thoughts on six releases to be found at NativeDSD. Included are two outstanding performances of Prokofiev’s symphonies by Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO (the Fourth and Sixth); a first recording from Jared Sacks’ newly opened residential recording studio in Pure DSD256, giving us a glimpse of more nice […]
Bodacious! A Great New Release From Sound Liaison in Pure DSD256
View Original Oh yes! I am excited about this. I am in love with this. Why? Because this is what audio should be. Frans de Rond, founder and recording engineer for Sound Liaison has released a stunning new album in Pure DSD256 with Carmen Gomes Inc. It is phenomenal. It is clarity, purity and utter […]
Superlative Brahms and Goldmark From Ning Feng and Channel Classics
View Original Every now and again a recording comes along that is of such supreme quality, that I simply must stop and tell you about it. It deserves a special stand alone article. And this performance by Ning Feng, recorded by Jared Sacks, is such a release. Read on… Brahms & Goldmark Violin Concertos, Ning […]
Recent Finds No. 54 – A Treasure Chest of New Releases at NativeDSD
View Original I can’t tell you about all the new releases from this past week now available at NativeDSD. I haven’t had time to listen to them all, and certainly not yet time to write about them all. But I have selected six that truly piqued my interest, and they turned out to be just […]
APSoon Recordings at the Organ, Phenomenal Music and Sonics in Pure DSD256
View Original This new release in the ongoing series of outstanding organ recordings from APSoon Recordings is their best yet. If you love great organ recordings, just get this now! It will blow you away. Aare-Paul Lattik, Live at Riga Cathedral. APSoon Records 2025 (Pure DSD256) Edit Master Sourced HERE This is the most recent release of […]
Cobra Records 25th Anniversary Producer’s Choice Album, an Audio Education
View Original Here is an audiophile’s dream—an exploration of superb performances remastered in Pure DSD from the original DSD tracking channels. Tom Peeters, founder and recording engineer of Cobra Records has gone into his archives to find his original DSD64 tracking channels from albums released between 2007-2014 and remastered selected tracks in Pure DSD256 for […]