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 […]
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 […]
View Original Today’s issue is an eclectic mix, and I think delightfully so. From an outstanding new release by The Hague String Trio of modern music composed in the 1920s, to even more challenging modern music of the past 30 years with the Rudersdal Chamber Players, to music of the 18th Century on clavichord (of […]
Not all Descriptions Cover the Load It is common knowledge that notes accompanying the presentation of a new recording are intended to encourage you to buy, likely written by a PR specialist. There is nothing wrong with that, but it’s a reviewer’s duty to verify the accuracy of the message. I’ve come across descriptions that […]
View Original We have a virtual cornucopia of excellence from NativeDSD for this edition of Recent Finds. Following the release of Eudora’s outstanding Pure DSD256 album of Mozart’s piano music for four hands, Review HERE, now we have a superb Mozart Requiem from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Orchestra, delightful Handel and Bach secular oratorios from Florilegium and […]
View Original When two masters play side-by-side, magic happens. So it is with this excellent new recording from pianists extraordinaire Josep Colom and Javier Laso. Mozart & Schubert Four Hand Piano Works, Josep Colom and Javier Laso. Eudora Records 2025 (Pure DSD256-Direct Mixed, Stereo, MCh) Edit Master Sourced HERE I have long admired the playing of both […]
This article was originally written by Rushton Paul for Positive Feedback. It has been reposted with their generous permission. View Original This Recent Finds includes an eclectic selection of music from the NativeDSD catalog. What’s the common thread? In each case, I found the music engaging, the performers/performances excellent, and the sound quality at a […]
View Original NativeDSD’s catalog continues to expand, with new artists and new labels. As I’ve written before, I enjoy recommending new albums from NativeDSD because I trust that the sound quality will be very high, regardless of the format or original recording resolution. Too many times I’ve been disappointed by the sound quality found elsewhere, […]
View Original This article of Recent Finds contains a truly disparate array of albums, but all of which I’ve enjoyed immensely. They are all beautifully recorded, supremely well performed, with interesting music that should be heard. I hope you will find something here that tickles your fancy. Mine has been tickled nearly to death listening […]
Could ‘The Horse’s Mouth’ Be Bigger than We Thought? Mozart played by three students of the Mozarteum University must be as though it comes straight from the horse’s mouth. Is that so? I compared Mozart’s Fourth Piano Trio, the first item on this new ADS release, with the excellent reading by the ‘Haydn Trio Eisenstadt’ […]
View Original Review Peter Bjørnild and Frans de Rond at Sound Liaison have just released a stunning new Pure DSD256 album. This is their first album in Pure DSD256 and the results are simply incredible, with all the transparency, timbral accuracy, and resolution for which we love Pure DSD256. Frans says of DSD, “Its incredible […]
Go To Original I listen to a lot of high resolution DXD and DSD256 file downloads. And, as you can imagine, I have my favorites—my “top of the pile” recordings for sound quality (to borrow a description from my vinyl years). I thought I’d assemble some of these personal favorites into a list for anyone […]