It’s that exciting time of year again… time to begin our Album of the Year Awards process! Highlighting and honouring the highest quality DSD music is what we do at NativeDSD. And there is no better way than to let you, our trusted music-loving audiophiles, vote on the top albums from the last year. Voting […]
The Sarahbanda was an idea born from the Mozart y Mambo trilogy. Could you tell us about your thought process during and after those 3 albums and the formation of the Sarahbanda? Also, what inspired you originally to make the Mozart y Mambo albums? The short answer to this question is that I fell in […]
Congratulations to the artists and labels who had their albums nominated for the 2024 Latin Grammy Awards Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album Best Latin Jazz Performer My Heart Speaks from 2xHD Mastering and Resonance Records is the most extravagantly lush album of Ivan Lins’s career. Performing rare gems from his catalog, the composer is backed by the 91-piece symphony of Tbilisi, capital […]
We were happy to present some of NativeDSDs single-(stereo) mic recordings at this years audio shows in Chicago, Munich and Singapore. There was a special one-mic sampler released, thereafter. When playing two takes of the very same performance, our audience consistently preferred the one mic version over the conventional multiple microphone array take. This blind test […]
Exclusive interview with pianist Anna Fedorova about her new album Intrigues of the Darkness. Available now only at NativeDSD for Plus Members! Why did you feel the urge to record an album exploring such dark pieces? It’s part of human nature to have certain attraction to darkness. Darkness in many meanings. For instance the night […]
This Stereo & 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD EP has been sourced from the DXD original edit master and is available only at NativeDSD! Check out the full album that was put out by Pentatone, which also contains Berntein’s Serenade: I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know John Williams’s music for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film […]
This year at AXPONA 2024, our music was presented in collaboration with LINKWITZ.audio – More specifially, they showcased a number of One Microphone Recordings from our catalogue. These are the final thoughts from LINKWITZ’s CEO Frank Brenner. We have created a special album from the music demonstrated at AXPONA 2024! At AXPONA 2024, the first […]
This year at AXPONA 2024 our music will still be presented in collaboration with LINKWITZ.audio – More specifially, they will be showcasing a number of One Microphone Recordings from our catalogue. If you are attending the show you can find them in Suite 1421. LINKWITZ’s CEO Frank Brenner has the following to say about the […]
I recently sat down with violist Ásdís Valdimarsdottir to discuss her most recent recording ‘Telemann: 12 Fantasies for Solo Viola’. Ásdís shares her experience of the recording as well as what inspired her to make it – personally transcribing the recently rediscovered 12 Fantasies for viola da gamba to viola. Had you heard of DSD […]
I think it’s really important to listen to this Stabat Mater album in DSD … What more can one wish for than to hear this intimacy of what we experience through your speakers? I think that’s possible in DSD. Maarten Engeltjes I recently had the enormous pleasure of sitting down with countertenor and PRJCT Amsterdam […]
This year at AXPONA 2024 our music will still be presented in collaboration with LINKWITZ.audio – More specifially, they will be showcasing a number of One Microphone Recordings from our catalogue. If you are attending the show you can find them in Suite 1421. LINKWITZ’s CEO Frank Brenner has the following to say about the […]
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with none other than Doug Fearn. As an audio engineer, founder and owner of D.W. Fearn, and most recently co-founder of Outer Marker Records, Doug has a toe in nearly every pool of the music world. It was a blast to speak to him about his life […]