Brian Moura, Author at Positive Feedback

A Return to Denver (RMAF)

Brian Moura — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:48:31 +0000

From Tents and Pods to a Remodeled Hotel Two years ago, I made the trek to Denver's Marriott Tech Center Hotel to attend the 2016 edition of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF). It was an unusual event as the hotel was under construction and much of the show was held in tents and pods... Read More »

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Buy A Record Label and Blue Coast Prime

Brian Moura — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:54:19 +0000

In recent years there have been major changes in the music industry. Sales of optical discs have declined while interest in other ways to get music albums including music downloads, streaming and formats like LPs and even Analog Tape are on the upswing with sales of some albums reissued on LP by Mobile Fidelity reaching... Read More »

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PrimeSeat Launches DSD 11.2MHz Streaming Audio

Brian Moura — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:48:48 +0000

PrimeSeat Presents the NHK Orchestra in DSD 11.2 MHz (Photo: PrimeSeat Software) While many were celebrating Independence Day this 4th of July, a different celebration was happening in Japan and on the Internet. July 4, 2017 was the launch date of 11.2MHz DSD (also known as Quad DSD or DSD 256) Streaming Audio from PrimeSeat. ... Read More »

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Sony Adds Quad DSD to Car Digital Media Player

Brian Moura — Tue, 30 May 2017 15:24:48 +0000

Sony RSX-GS9 Playing Dirty Work by Jenna Mammina in DSD 11.2 MHz (Photo: Blue Coast Music) Sony Electronics has announced that their RSX-GS9 Car Digital Media Player is now available with Quad Rate DSD (11.2MHz) playback. Current owners of the RSX-GS9 can upgrade their players by downloading and installing a free software upgrade from the... Read More »

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Santana's Lotus: Complete Edition in Quad DSD and SACD Surround Sound

Brian Moura — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:15:29 +0000

Lotus: Complete Edition, Santana (Photo: Sony Music Japan) Sony Music Japan will be celebrating Santana's upcoming concerts in Japan from April 22 to April 27, 2017 in a big way with the release of a new Complete Edition of the band's legendary Lotus album in DSD 11.2 MHz stereo (also known as DSD 256 or Quad DSD),... Read More »

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Discoveries at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2016

Brian Moura — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:53:34 +0000

October has arrived and for many audio fans on the West Coast that means it's time for the annual Rocky Mountain Audio Fest also known as RMAF. This year's edition of RMAF (Rocky Mountain Audio Fest) was held, as in the past, at the Marriott Tech Center Hotel in Denver, Colorado. RMAF has several advantages... Read More »

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Report from AXPONA 2016

Brian Moura — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:46:22 +0000

The 2016 edition of AXPONA (also known as Audio Expo North America) was held at the Westin O'Hare hotel in Rosemont, IL just a short distance away from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from April 15-17, 2016. AXPONA is the premiere audio show in the Midwest. While one will see a number of high end and... Read More »

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Jenna & Alex: Live Concert Broadcast in DSD

Brian Moura — Fri, 20 May 2016 14:55:01 +0000

Jenna Mammina and Alex de Grassi (Photo: David Pappas) On April 21st, a bit of music history was made as singer Jenna Mammina and guitarist Alex de Grassi performed an hour long concert that was broadcast live over the Internet in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) 5.6 MHz Stereo. The concert was the first of its... Read More »

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New Sony Receiver with 5.1 Multichannel DSD 5.6 MHz Playback

Brian Moura — Fri, 20 May 2016 14:46:11 +0000

Sony STR-DN1070 AV Receiver with 5.1 Multichannel DSD 5.6 MHz Playback Sony Electronics has expanded their DSD series of High Resolution Audio products with the release of the new STR-DN1070 Audio Visual receiver. Sony describes the STR-DN1070 as a 7.2 Channel Home Theater AV Receiver with High-Resolution Audio and Video plus Native Multichannel Native DSD... Read More »

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Nativ Touchscreen Music System Tops Fund Raising Goal

Brian Moura — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:27:28 +0000

Nativ Sound, an audio start-up based in Hong Kong working on a family of elegant touchscreen music components, has announced that they have passed their $100,000 fund raising goal on Indegogo in one week. This exceeds the company's original goal of reaching that milestone in 2 months. Nativ's family of music system components includes Nativ... Read More »

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Star Wars Comes to DSD and Analog Tape

Brian Moura — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:32:23 +0000

Star Wars Original Soundtracks in Stereo DSD and Analog Tape Horch House has released the first three original soundtracks from the Star Wars Series: Episode 4: Star Wars – A New Hope, Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back and Episode 6: Return of the Jedi in Stereo DSD, analog tape, and WAV formats. The albums... Read More »

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Sony Adds Car Digital Media Player, Turntable and Disc Player to DSD Lineup [UPDATED 3/5/16]

Brian Moura — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 00:01:11 +0000

Sony Electronics is expanding the company’s High Resolution Audio line with a new Car Audio System, Turntable and Universal Disc Player which all support Double DSD (5.6 MHz) and PCM music files during 2016. The new products build upon the company’s High Resolution Audio line which started in 2013 and was timed to support the... Read More »

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Prism Sound Announces Callia DAC/Preamp for Home Audio Market

Brian Moura — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:24:05 +0000

Prism Sound, makers of recording studio and pro audio A/D and D/A converters and the SADiE digital workstation, has announced plans to enter the home audio market with their first product later this month. The announcement follows similar entries into the home audio market by a series of companies that started in the pro audio... Read More »

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HDtracks Starts Offering DSD Stereo Downloads

Brian Moura — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 16:46:25 +0000

Some of the DSD Stereo Downloads at HDtracks Two years ago at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, Acoustic Sounds and Native DSD announced their new music download sites that would feature Direct Stream Digital (DSD) downloads. At the same show, Sony Electronics introduced a family of Digital Music Servers and Converters that would... Read More »

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Korg Continues to Expand into the High-Res Audio Frontier with Introduction of DS-DAC-10R and Audiogate 4

Brian Moura — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 23:06:11 +0000

USB DAC recording system offers professional-grade A/D conversion and the ultimate in vinyl archival To satisfy audiophiles everywhere, KORG expands its Direct Stream Digital (DSD) hardware and software products with the introduction of the DS-DAC-10R, a revolutionary USB DAC recording system offering professional-grade Analog-to-Digital (ADC) conversion. Thanks to seamless integration with the improved AudioGate 4 software... Read More »

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Horch House Launches DSD Wafer Cards

Brian Moura — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:36:38 +0000

One of the interesting exhibits at the recent High End Audio show in Munich earlier this year featured Horch House. For those of you who aren't familiar with the company, Horch House is the analog audio division of Lutz Precision, a worldwide leader in auto making equipment based in Austria. While it probably seems a... Read More »

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DSD and Analog: The Great Convergence

Brian Moura — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:19:44 +0000

The recent edition of THE Show Newport was held at the Hotel Irvine and featured not only a host of audio exhibits and demonstrations, but also a series of seminars titled "Audio University". One of these sessions focused on the similarities between Single, Double, and Quad bit rate DSD and Analog Recording. The panelists have... Read More »

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Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert in 3 Channel SACD Stereo

Brian Moura — Sun, 24 May 2015 22:25:20 +0000

Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert Photo: Courtesy of Acoustic Sounds Sometimes, the best things are worth waiting for. That's certainly the case with this week's long-awaited release of the Living Stereo album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert in 3 Channel SACD Stereo on the Analogue Productions label. I'm sure that most... Read More »

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Stockfisch Records Finds Analog Pearls

Brian Moura — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:54:20 +0000

Analog Pearls, Volume 1 Cover Stockfisch Enters the Remastered SACD/DSD Market Some of our readers are familiar with Stockfisch Records. It's a small independent record label based in Germany that was initially known for their recordings of folk music starting in the mid 1970's. More recently, they have gained attention for their Super Audio CD... Read More »

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Lampizator's 5th Generation DSD DAC: A Game Changer

Brian Moura — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:15:49 +0000

The New Lampizator Generation V DSD DAC (Photo: Brian Moura) In May I attended The Show in Newport Beach with a list of new products I wanted to hear. Near the top of that list were the widely applauded, tube-based Digital to Analog Converters from Lampizator in Europe. They had captured the attention—and dollars—of many... Read More »

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The Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke & The Animals Come to DSD

Brian Moura — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 01:27:56 +0000

The Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke & The Animals in DSD Just over a year ago, Chad Kassem at Acoustic Sounds announced the launch of Super HiRez, a new downloads site that would bring out major artist albums in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) in response to many requests from music fans and audiophiles. Since that time,... Read More »

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A High Resolution Music Download Site You May Not Know

Brian Moura — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:30:15 +0000

Last year there were concerns about the lack of high resolution music files available in the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format for purchase. It was a factor that some music fans cited as a reason for holding off on buying a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) that included DSD playback. Those of you following the... Read More »

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exaSound Brings Quad DSD to Mac, Support for Linux and Windows Server Enhancements

Brian Moura — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:25:03 +0000

George Klissarov, exaSound (left) and Jared Sacks, NativeDSD.Com (right) Listening to Multichannel DSD Music at RMAF 2013 Pushing the Boundaries of High Resolution Audio Many Positive Feedback readers and audiophiles are familiar with exaSound Audio Design based in Toronto, Canada. For those of you who are new to the world of high resolution stereo and multichannel music... Read More »

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Super HiRez Brings Live Blues to DSD and Signs Warner Music Deal

Brian Moura — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:18:31 +0000

Chad Kassem and Marc Sheforgan of SuperHirez.com Chad Kassem is well known in music circles and among Positive Feedback readers as the CEO of Acoustic Sounds, Super HiRez music downloads site, Analogue Productions record label and Quality Record Pressings—a high quality Vinyl LP pressing plant. This has put Kassem at the forefront of many major breakthroughs in... Read More »

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The UFO-DSD Special Edition Has Landed

Brian Moura — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 07:11:28 +0000

During The Show in Newport Beach in May, I was walking in the parking lot between the two hotels that host the event when I spotted Cookie Marenco from Blue Coast Records. Readers of Positive Feedback know that Cookie and her company are among the pioneers in releasing DSD downloads. Earlier this year, she was interviewed by... Read More »

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