NativeDSD selectively creates higher DSD bitrates of releases for our listener’s musical enjoyment. These higher bitrate editions are created using two different sets of professional recording and mastering tools methods: Merging Technologies “MECO” modulators and the Pyramix 12 digital audio workstation software, and Signalyst’s “EC” modulators and DSD professional software tools including HQ Player Pro. […]
NativeDSD Music created its first-ever DSD 512 Sampler album in May 2019 to coincide with one of the largest audio shows of the world – Munich High End – as content for hardware partners presenting new DACs and Players capable of DSD 512 playback. Shortly after, 6 full-length Albums were released in DSD 512. Sounds […]
You might recall, in my blog post from this past October I wondered: “Is it Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov?” About 75 percent of the listings at the NativeDSD Store use -ov, and the rest use -off. I tended toward the -ov, but good old Microsoft Spellcheck prefers -off. Searching can be an issue, so I suggest […]
Each of the three selections on this album offers a journey into one miniature world after another – every one colorful, characterful, complete. Just as the Criers strive to honor each musician’s individual voice in the context of something larger, these works contextualise dozens of distinct visions, pulling them together into a wonderful form of […]
Cuarteto Quiroga has just informed NativeDSD that they have won Spain’s National Music Award 2018! Congratulations to the Quiroga quartet members and the label Cobra Records. What an achievement. What an honour. Today, while we were rehearsing Boccherini, in our home, the Museo Cerralbo of Madrid, the phone rang: “we pass you with the […]
Accompanying her debut at NativeDSD, cellist Alisa Weilerstein writes a personal note about the repertoire, ensemble and recording session. An intensely beautiful account of the thoughts and experiences behind this new DSD Release from PENTATONE: Alisa Weilerstein & Trondheim Soloists: “Transfigured Night”. Schoenberg fled Vienna in 1934, four years before my grandparents escaped. So, as […]
Here’s the story of how Groove Note Records and NativeDSD got to know each other, started collaborating and as a result… release the first four Groove Note DSD Albums at the NativeDSD Store today! It started in irvine, where a well known high end audio distributor Philip O’ Hanlon from On A Higher Note was demonstrating some […]
After Antonio Lysy won Yarlung’s first GRAMMY® Award for Music from Argentina and Te Amo, Argentina (both available on NativeDSD) we have looked forward to collaborating again, especially to include a Swiss recording of the Kodaly Duo with Antonio’s father the eminent Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy. Kudos and thanks to Claude Cellier at Merging Technologies, our executive producer who made […]
TRPTK Sessions is a new initiative from TRPTK. Every month one artist gets invited to the recording studio to perform a triptych of three pieces. A triptych is a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together. After recording, all remains unedited, unpolished, in its pure and raw form, […]
From the middle Ages to Baroque to Classical Romantic, Western music has changed the look of musical instruments as well as musical technique. In the early days, the music played in the church and the court became popular to public and as a result, instruments have been changed to sound bigger and farther. It is […]
An interview with founders Jared Sacks, Managing Director & Jonas Sacks, Technical Director, just before the festive moment that NativeDSD reached 1,000 DSD albums: early September 2016. Q.: What does it feel like to have released over 1,000 albums in DSD in just over 2 years? It feels like we have only just begun to […]
Abstract A new drug – no, but a new “can’t‐be‐without‐it‐anymore” audio format bursting into our listening rooms. Direct Stream Digital (DSD) actually has been around for a while already, but it has been so married to a physical media, SACD, that it has yet to receive the attention from audiophiles that it deserves. It is […]