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  • 1 year later...
Ryan Bingham - more western than Southern, but then Feat was based in DC, so not that Southern either. Subdudes are another recommendation. But tough (impossible, really) to equal Feat back in the day with Lowell, and not much comes close to Dixie Chicken.

 

Feat was in my college rotation for probably 90% of the time. Lowell was a tier one musical genius IMHO (in that "top under-rated" list like Ray Davies or Harry Nilsson). I saw them a few times, including the final tour (Waiting For Columbus recorded during that tour) with LG. His passing hit me like Lennon's. They are still a fun band, but nothin like the Lowell-era. Even side projects like them backing Robert Palmer's early albums...amazing music. I just this past week or so got on another Little Feat jag and have been playing them a LOT. :)

 

Edit: I am not really a fan of Southern rock at all...I don't consider Little Feat (or CCR) to be southern.

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  • 1 month later...
Hmmm, I don't know if the SACD could be better since BIS doesn't record on DSD... They have (maybe) the SACD format for the 5 channels.

 

Roch

 

BIS only did nine or ten (some discrepancy discussed elsewhere) DSD-based SACD's, then they moved to 24 bit recordings (lots of 24/44 then moved to 24/96, all available in native PCM on eclassical site). It just so happens that this example SACD, the Jarvi Tchaikovsky, is indeed one of the nine truly done in DSD. :)

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Roch, that is wayyyyy too scary, cuz here is my album of the evening from last night:

The DSD rip of OEHMS Kitajenko's Tschaikowsky No 5

 

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The DSD rip is amazing (although the multichannel is even better)

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  • 9 months later...
Alkan piano works by P. Amoyel, in 24/96 high res from Qobuz. I am enjoying this recording more and more. The recording quality is excellent: the sound of the piano is very natural, which is quite rare in my experience.

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Oops, wrong quote, sorry.

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Riclki Lee Jones: Traffic From Paradise Acoustic Sounds DL DSD64. Jud et al. has it right. Forget about the DSD vs PCM the politics of HDtracks, Mark Waldrip (sic). The DL is delicious sonically. Hence my enjoyment of music, my highest priority. Recommended ( highly ).

Enjoy the music,

Richard

 

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PS

I have other editions of this album, so what!

 

+1

 

One of my favorite RLJ albums, and one I was salivating for the SACD. I ripped it a month ago or so and have been enjoying it! I've always liked the redbook, bu the DSD takes the background cues to a whole new level, and drops the noise floor quite a bit. It's an acquire taste for those simply used to Chuck E's In Love, but please give it a try in your rotation. Now if they would do Pop Pop.

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Nat King Cole: Love Is The Thing Acoustic Sounds Hi-Res DL DSD64. Mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman with DSD specialist Gus Skinas. Highly enjoyable. Can be played at higher volume. Recommended.

 

Enjoy the music,

Richard

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+1 The whole series is wonderful. And I'm hoping Chad gets around to having the 3 channel layer (from most if not all of the series) downloadable too. Kevin and Steve did a LOT of work with it, and it is sublime. Great stuff, Richard.

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  • 5 months later...
Love Jacky Terrason and Casandra Wilson but didn't know about this one. Cool!

 

It's on my constant rotation, and I use several cuts for any of my reviews/demos. Love it; an acquired taste of a slightly askew look at jazz and pop vocal standards.

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This was mastered by Jared Sacks direct to DSD as far as I know? You can download the DSD version at:

 

https://channelclassics.nativedsd.com/albums/guardian-angel

 

Yes. One of my projects is that I work for Jared (volunteeer, actually...hopefully Jared is reading this :) :) ) on NativeDSD dot com. These DSD sessions are often mixed in the box, too, so little is done to the DSD files.

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  • 4 months later...

Wild that you mention Ola Gjeilo as i just ripped the 24/192 stereo and mch tracks from the bluray just this morning. I have Mortens DXD free sample and the 192 rip is 99.99% of it. Great recording.

 

 

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Hi Ted,

 

I made the mistake to get in DSD, something is "lost in translation" from DXD.

 

DSD fever?

 

Best,

 

Roch

 

Roch,

You like DXD better, is what you are saying? I agree that any format conversion loses something.

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  • 7 months later...
An old chestnut, yes, but absolutely delightful. Energetic playing, beautifully recorded on Harmonia Mundi; strings rather than the usual piano/keyboard.

 

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Available in 24/96 from eClassical: eClassical - Bach, Sitkovetsky: Goldberg Variations

 

Also here in original DSD (both stereo and mulitchannel)

https://harmoniamundi.nativedsd.com/albums/goldberg-variations

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Tonight I got out my newest SACD rips, the new SHM analog-to-DSD masters of the Roxy Music catalog, specifically (tonight) Stranded and For Your Pleasure.

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WOW! Makes all other formats of these irrelevant. Amazing. Phil Manzanera is a god. :) And these SHM transfers are soooo good, and sooo musical.

 

HQplayer convolved DSD64 to DSD256.

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OK, weird listening night, I'll give you that. Maybe too much Jenner coverage drove me here. And this album is all about family dysfunction, headaches, motherhood, casual sex, imaginary accomplishments and getting the f' out of town....it's also a cure for the need for tones, weird chords, great hooks in pop songs and an eclectic collection of Liz's great sick dry humor mind....if you own it, play it in HQPlayer on an exaSound at DSD256. Very nice. Compressed, pop protools stuff, but "fun". :) I hadn't played it in quite awhile.

 

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And then an unplugged (of sorts) follow-up to this pop-infused myriad of songs comes Cat Power's very acoustic, very emotionally drained set of songs she wrote in one night after an hallucinatory nightmare in a farmhouse in 1997 (she was worried for her life and went and got a tape recorder and her guitar and wrote like 8 of the songs in the next hour or two). Again, the tones, the chords, the shadings and "compositional clarity' (as Rolling Stone says) is quite beautiful. It's an acquired taste, but give it a try.

 

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  • 4 months later...
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations Ito Ema

 

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MA Recordings gold CD-R. Also available as regular pressed CD, hi rez DVD and LP. I believe there is an R2R tape version as well... Killer sound quality. Not the flashy and hyped up kind but utterly, completely natural. It's recording of a piano, no more and no less. You really got to hear the performance for what it is. Amazing!

 

Yes, very nice. I have Todd's DSD128 transfer he did, and have wanted to put it on NativeDSD for the longest time!! Todd won't close the deal. :)

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  • 2 months later...
From ProStudioMasters 24/48 DL.

 

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This belongs to "Stunning Hi Res 2016 releases" but I can't see a thread with this name.

 

Roch

 

Roch, here is the "Stunning Hi Res 2015 releases" thread, but this 2488 album has been around since 2013 (mine's dated 1/20/2013). Not a new release, regardless.

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f13-music-downloads-and-streaming/stunning-hi-res-2015-releases-24048/

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  • 11 months later...

Music Direct sent me a fun thing to open yesterday...the new SACD issue of the wonderful Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions. I quickly ripped it and am playing it at DSD512 (HQplayer->microRendu->Intona->Kitsune Edition Spring dac). I must say that this is a tremendous reissue and worth every penny of the $29 it cost me.

 

I've really never heard this album (after listening to various owned formats over 25 years) until tonight. The detail retrieval is the highlight, along with the tonality. The thing is soaked in ambient cues, unearthed from a standard little DAT tape (likley anywhere from 16/44 to 24/48k recording). Amazing. The Trinity Chapel is the star, and tht Timmons gang really knew how to work it. Michael's other-wordly guitar harmonics match perfectly with Anton's bass lines in Dreaming MY Dreams With You...the slightly off-tones mix solidly togther liek never before. Hell, the whole Postcard Blues effect is startingly clear on this recording, something you had to really work at with all the other formats, some of which were not too bad. This is not a recording that hasn't already gotten its kudos over the years, so discovering these new relationships, these new often subtle back beats.....it's quite a nice trip! Highly recommended.

 

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What they captured there was memorable and magical. Thanks for the memories...

 

Yes, and as I mentioned here on this thread a few days ago, the new SACD is da bomb. Detail retrieval, church cues, etc that allow one to listen like never before. Nice! But, in fact, just listening to ANY version is true magic. :)

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My SACD player has been out of commission (disc bay won't eject). This may motivate me to get this repaired as I would love this work in SACD.

As an aside, many thanks to your for your JRMC videos and some on-line help when I was intent on getting the most out of JRMC to manage my library. Most helpful...

 

 

Thanks for the nice comments. One does not need an SACD player if one has a dac he/she likes, and either a PS3 or a rip-capable universal player (Oppo, etc) to rip the SACD to extract DSF files or ISO images. Even if your dac can't do DSD, the extracted files sound pretty damn good in some (sweetspot of your dac) sample rate of PCM too.

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Awful?  That's harsh.  To each his own; I find the remaster to be revelatory in the lower level excavating, but agree that the more complex loud passages continue to clip away.  It's likely all they could do, but what they've uncovered is simply wonderful IMHO.

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