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Silent City: TRPTK Sessions [DSD EP]
★★★★★ Jon Dennerlein
Silent City: TRPTK Sessions [DSD EP]

This music has a beautiful, emotional, satisfying spookiness that fills a gap in my collection. The quality of course is fantastic as is always with TRPTK.

Live Acoustic Session [Pure DSD]
★★★★★ John Deas
Live Acoustic Session [Pure DSD]

This is a cracking intimate performance and just great fun. Recording is clear as crystal and a great flag wave for pure DSD capture, I highly recommend this.

Amulet (One Microphone Recording)
★★★★ Frans Kregting
Amulet (One Microphone Recording)

The music is swinging and lovely. Beautifully played and recorded. Even the bass player can be heard playing along.

Sideways
★★★★ Léon Jehae
Sideways

Downloaded in (original) DXD format and played via ROON on KEF LS50WII

Nice "spatial sound" (especially gitar(s)), that is unfortunately hard to find in this genre.
Nice (tight) drums, no overkill. Not played (yet) on my "highend" system. (B&W Emphasis)

Rating is only based on sound quality, taste of music is like taste of food, so.................................

Some Other Time (The Lost Session From The Black Forest) [Double Album]
★★★★★ Eric Berger
Some Other Time (The Lost Session From The Black Forest) [Double Album]

An unreleased album of Bill Evans music is two white whales in one. And it is proof of my high expectations.

The sound a decade ago, as all piano recordings by MPS that time, is remastered with feeling and perfection. Second, the common tactic of HGBS and Behrendt, to record shortly after concerts at a spot in the picturesque Villingen as a relaxing intermission, with no order or constructed playlist, led to great results.

The trio is in great mood and flow, as Bill Evans is. But the reply “Absolutely! Of course!” by the HGBS son on the request of unreleased tapes makes me wonder. What more is there to come? Please be generous as we await the next in this series of Bill Evans remasters.

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
★★★★ Adrian Lyk
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

There is a tiny skip at song no. (1) Randy at 00:17. And a tiny saxophone sound right before the saxophonist blows the saxophone. Overall this a great album and a great recording.

Schoenberg & Tchaikovsky
★★★★ giortin
Schoenberg & Tchaikovsky

Only play track 1 , the page cover can’t be displaying, the other can.

Canto Stefano: Fausto Mesolella Sings Stefano Benni
★★★★★ Roberto Brandoli
Canto Stefano: Fausto Mesolella Sings Stefano Benni

Great recording from Fonè as they very often do. Beautiful memory of Fausto Mesolella. I also purchased the vinyl version. The DSD sound is very similar in my setup.

Genius At Play
★★★★★ giortin
Genius At Play

Great quality and performance.

Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions
★★★★★ giortin
Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions

Great excellent quality and performance. I found there is no DSD 128 or DSD 256 in the other Rachel Podger Mozart violin album albums. This is the first album that I purchased from Native DSD. I felt it is great and I will order again.

One Mic, Two Weekends (One Microphone Recording)
★★★ Ivor Benjamin
One Mic, Two Weekends (One Microphone Recording)

I also purchased this recording at its originally recorded resolution of DSD 128. I listen with a dCS Bartok with built in headphone amp driving balanced Focal Utopia headphones. It's a nice recording. But sadly the drums and percussion sound way too far away from the mic. There is no high end on the cymbals and percussion sounds distant. That makes this one mic attempt good but not great in my view. The guitars are well recorded though.

One Mic, Two Weekends (One Microphone Recording)
★★★★★ Michael Wadge
One Mic, Two Weekends (One Microphone Recording)

I purchased this album as, having read the comments in the website, I felt it was worth trying something different from the kinds of music I normally listen to. Also, I was attracted to the fact that it was available as DXD 32 bit/352.8kHz, which from previous experience with NativeDSD, was guaranteed to result in a stunning recording. This has certainly proved to be the case, although I should perhaps mention that my JRiver Media Center 27 program on my laptop describes the file type as WAV! No matter, the album is not only spectacularly vivid in its clarity, it is also beautifully performed and the music, all unknown to me before, is tuneful. I particularly enjoyed the more contemplative tracks such as Montana Sky, The Hope Street Shuffle and especially Living on the Moon.

For those who might be interested, I appraised the album using my trusty Chord Hugo TT2 headphone amp and DAC, coupled with my Chord M-Scaler plus my Focal Utopia headphones and connected to an Atlas Zeno cable.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni) "a parti reali"
★ jhascak
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni) "a parti reali"

Very bad recording. Out of balance, the main protagonist is breathing heavily so it is impossible to enjoy this really. Stay away from this recording if you want to avoid disappointment.

[NativeDSD Staff: The customer has been offered an option to get the album exchanged for something else from the store].

Spes
★★★★★ Nick L
Spes

Though hires albums are quite expensive for me brilliance has no cost.

Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions
★★★★★ Michael Wadge
Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions

I confess that initially I viewed this album with some trepidation, as I have always had concerns about incomplete works being "finished" by a third party, however eminent a music scholar that person might be. However, one of my favourite classical works is the realisation by Deryck Cooke of Mahler's incomplete 10th Symphony, so I decided to give this album a go. I already own several Rachel Podger albums, so I knew her musicianship would be outstanding, as indeed it is. I am not familiar with the work of Christopher Glynn, but his playing of the Fortepiano, not usually one of my favourite instruments, was remarkable on this album.

Being both a great fan of the music of Mozart and also an unashamed audiophile, the opportunity to acquire only my second download in DXD 32bit/352.8kHz format proved irresistible. I have not been disappointed. The sound is quite spectacular.

As to the music, the completions by Professor Timothy Jones are astonishingly good and it is especially pleasing that in the case of two of the three works recorded he has composed two different completions.

All things considered, this is another excellent addition to the Channel Classics catalogue and to Mozart's discography.

The equipment I used for my assessment comprised my Chord Hugo TT2, Chord M-Scaler and my newly acquired and delightful Dan Clark Audio Aeon 2 Noire Planar Magnetic headphones, coupled with the Dan Clark upgrade Vivo cable.

Help!
★★★★★ Jon Dennerlein
Help!

What a very pleasant surprise of an album. I suspected this would be so because the sound stage, harmonics, and activity shined even when demoing the album from the site. This is fusion at it's best. High resolution attributes (spacious sound stage, instrument separation, precise sound) is all here. What a great, easy listen!

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
★★★★★ Michael Wadge
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

I have been listening in awe to my download of this wonderful album, the first I have purchased in 32bit/352.8kHz DXD format. I do not believe I have ever heard a more vivid or impactful recording than this one, but of course that would be of little consequence if it was not matched by the performance itself. Fortunately, both the interpretation of Manfred Honeck and the playing of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra were equally impeccable and I recommend this album unreservedly.

For anyone that may be interested, I played the album through my Chord Hugo TT2 DAC, coupled with my Chord M-Scaler, which upscaled the album to 705kHz (!) and connected to my beloved and much used Focal Utopia headphones.

Mahler Symphony no. 3 in D-minor
★★★★★ David Korous
Mahler Symphony no. 3 in D-minor

Mahler patří společně s Antonem Brucknerem mezi nejvýznamnější rakouské skladatele symfonické hudby. Pod taktovkou Ivána Fischera si vychutnávám monumentálnost úžasného díla, plné melancholie.

Cool Jazz [Pure DSD]
★★★★★ David Korous
Cool Jazz [Pure DSD]

Cool jazz to calm a tired soul. This recording will please even the most demanding listener.

Super Artists in Super Audio Vol. 9
★★★★★ David Korous
Super Artists in Super Audio Vol. 9

What is the point of being alive? I know, I know it's an old question and not one that's easy to answer. But I think my answer is the following - listening of the music tones and its positive impact on the human soul. The all songs are very well selected. Beautiful album, indeed!!!