STS Digital

To begin with, we love music

We started our company in 1980. It is a wonderful way to express our feelings and enables us to communicate with everyone equally. We also love the sound of musical instruments, played in superb acoustic surroundings, where they sound pure and warm. Unfortunately most CD’s, LP’s and Reel to Reel tapes are poorly recorded. Often the microphones are placed too closely to the instruments, causing a harsh sound and a lack of ambience.

To address these issues we started STS Digital since 2000. We wanted to do something totally different. The result is our fine selection of recordings from series like: Extended Dynamic Experience, Celebrate the Art & Spirit of Music, Siltech Test Demo CD, The Absolute Sound Reference and many LP’s and Reel to Reel Tapes.

Our sound

Across all these series and products we give every musical instrument the space it needs, allowing us to hear the original sound in a wonderful ambience. A saxophone will sound like a saxophone and not like a clarinet and a piano will sound like a piano and not a like keyboard.
This is why we choose to record music in the acoustic space of a concert hall or church, instead of in a dead sounding studio with the microphones too close to the instruments.

We use the very best Schoeps microphones and to preserve their fine signals we use gold or silver cables from Siltech and copper cables from Van den Hul. To ensure pristine mains power we have developed our own 6 pack AC Power Block which cleans up the AC current. We patiently judge the sound of the artist’s performance in the concert room using our own hearing and then return to our recording room to ensure that you will hear the same natural sound in your home. Often this means avoiding close microphone placement. Great care is taken in the mixing and mastering of our recordings. We guard every step in the recording process with our ears, like a wolf in the night.

Our quality

We even check the results during every step in the production process and compare the playback to the original recordings. We acknowledge that most manufacturers of CD’s, LP’s and Reel to Reel Tapes are reluctant to finance such high grade quality control.

These downloads are of the same quality as our other products (CD – LP – TAPE). And, as our customers worldwide have come to expect, they offer the very highest possible sound quality!

When you enjoy listening to our productions, please remember that we did our very best to bring you the best possible sound.

Our goal is nothing less than being the best of the best!