Article: Patricia Barber Clique Review, Plus Video Interview

[JoeWhip]

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[The Computer Audiophile]

Great stuff. Thanks Joe!

 

I'm bummed I missed the live interview, but very thankful for you getting us the recorded link. 

[PeterG]

Super--thanks!

 

Oddly, the price of the CD on Amazon is $28.  I'm not really price sensitive--if it was rare I would drop $28 in a second.  But I don't think I've ever seen a new CD at that price--I was expecting $10-12.  

 

Just makes me wonder...?

[JoeWhip]

I will check. I know the SACD is priced at that level.

[JoeWhip]

Impex has the CD price as $19.99 which is the price that Amazon has for the CD version of Higher.

[R1200CL]

 

[matthias]

Available too on Spotify.

 

Matt

[JoeWhip]

From the Impex site:

 

CATALOG: IMP8323
MSRP: $34.99 USD

 

Elusive disc has the SACD in stock for $34.99 and the CD for $19.99.

[PeterG]

3 hours ago, JoeWhip said:

Impex has the CD price as $19.99 which is the price that Amazon has for the CD version of Higher.

Thanks!  Bought it from Impex, and tossed in Misty from the Yamamoto trio.

 

I don't stream often, and about 90% of the music I've bought over the past ten years has been from Amazon, I had not realized that virtually everyone else is gone.

[JoeWhip]

I have the Misty. I am sure you will enjoy it.

[Danny Kaey]

uhhhhhhhhh love it!

[miguelito]

Great stuff! It is a beautiful album. I particularly love Stevie Wonder's "All In Love Is Fair" rendition, I have always loved this song and this version is fantastic. Thank you.

[miguelito]

Great stuff! It is a beautiful album. I particularly love Stevie Wonder's "All In Love Is Fair" rendition, I have always loved this song and this version is fantastic. Thank you.

 

Wondering where the DXD (or some lower rate PCM) version can be purchased from.

[JoeWhip]

As I noted above, the DXD and DSD downloads are NativeDSD exclusives.

[miguelito]

 

3 minutes ago, JoeWhip said:

As I noted above, the DXD and DSD downloads are NativeDSD exclusives.

Yes just realized. Thx. When I looked on NativeDSD I didn't see the DXD. BTW, I am a DSD fan but given the album was produced in DXD, I want to get that version.

[JoeWhip]

Interestingly,  Ulricke commented on that during our interview. Nonetheless they produced a DSD 1024 version. I would hope it comes with its own hard drive. 😀

[Rcanoe]

Nice to see the level of quality placed in the recording of music...   not a jazz person but I think I'll take a look.

 

Cheers

[LoryWiv]

Wonderful article, thank you Joe. We focus a lot on the gear and audiophile qualities, but it's when that is combined with highest caliber of music and musicianship that the magic happens! Trying to decide between the DSD128 ( I generally prefer DSD with HQPlayer) versus DXD downloads, priced the same. Would you anticipate comparable sound quality?

[JoeWhip]

I don’t play DSD natively as my DAC doesn’t support it so I convert all of my DSD to PCM. The recording was made with DXD so that would have the best fidelity. You can always convert that to DSD if you want.

[miguelito]

I purchased the DXD from NativeDSD. The sound difference from TIDAL's MQA version is not subtle at all, the DXD version is far superior. And what the artist intended since it was recorded and mastered in DXD!!! 😎

[JoeWhip]

Why am I not surprised?

[miguelito]

1 hour ago, JoeWhip said:

Why am I not surprised?

Assume you mean MQA vs DXD... By comparision, the MQA version is louder and more distorted. Shocking difference. The DXD version is amazing.

[JoeWhip]

yes, miguelito, exactly as I would have expected. Glad you are enjoying it.

 

[miguelito]

Wondering if there are liner notes in pdf form. The DXD download did not include anything. 

 

I love liner notes. Whenever I rip a disc I scan the liner notes and put them with the files - and can see them in Roon or Audirvana.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I purchased DXD in 32 bit (float) format from NativeDSD. Useful if anyone plans to process it any further, I prefer the 32bit version over 24bit for my use case.