Go To Original Article For me, a Pure DSD256 recording done well is the height of audio reproduction excellence. Yes, 15ips and 30ips analog tape sound marvelous, but so does Pure DSD256. Play either in its pure state, as in direct from the tape or direct from an excellent D/A converter, without intervening mucking about, […]
Originally written for Classical Source – view original This album, featuring a great Baroque organ and superb organist, is for a number of reasons, highly recommendable. First the organ has an almost translucent sound and time and again such as in the Prelude of BWV 535 and Chorale Prelude BWV 690 you hear exquisitely nuanced, […]
View Original Article Okay, I admit it. I love a good organ recording. In my vinyl days, I had shelves upon shelves of excellent organ recordings on LP. Today, my digital library is somewhat bereft. There are lots of organ albums on CD, but piffle. I want full resolution. If I can’t have vinyl, then […]
To Original Article Sometimes an album arrives on my shores that simply requires immediate comment because it is so deliciously good. This is one of those. The Blue Hour Sessions: Audiophile Jazz Recordings Rembrandt Frerichs, Rembrandt TrioJust Listen Records 2025 (Pure DSD256) Edit Master Sourced I have been a fan of pianist Rembrandt Frerichs for several […]
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 […]
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 […]
An in-depth review of ‘Left Hand Legacy Vol. 2’ from pianist Folke Nauta. Accompanied by Lars Wouters van den Oudenwijer and the Prisma String Trio and released on Cobra Records. A laudable initiative that deserves to be fully exploited. With this second volume of the Wittgenstein Project, many will be thrilled to get more out of the legacy discovered […]
The surprise couldn’t be grander. In his liner notes Ralph Rousseau tells us that except for a handful of Viola da Gamba players, few have for a long time been aware of Carl Friedrich Abel’s Sonatas. I, too, was not all too familiar with many of them. With this TRPTK release, the surprise couldn’t be […]
What is the difference between the automobile market and the music record business? Not much. Sales statistics cover the mass market in either sector. But irrespective of figures and predictions there will always be room, however small, for a ‘niche’, as long as there is a demand for ‘The Best’. Not numbers, but the quality […]
This is one of my Audiophile Italy publications, translated to English. The original section name is “Audiophile Alerts”. And all of these albums are available at NativeDSD! A very fresh release is this one from LSO Live, the label that records the best concerts of the London Symphony Orchestra. The occasion is invaluable for listening […]
Angelo Verploegen and Jasper van Hulten: The Duke Book (Just Listen Records) Jazz performance is sometimes compared to a tightrope walk. A dialogue between a horn player and a percussionist, with no piano, guitar or bass to provide the harmonic foundation, is like a tightrope walk without a net. On their recent album “The Duke […]
Regretting that Myrios no longer releases Super Audio CD’s, many will be glad to learn that recordings will henceforth be available through downloadable digital files from Native DSD. And let me assure all classical music fans: Not only doesn’t it have any negative impact on the quality, you will also get the choice of higher […]