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Just Listen: There’s Something Special Going On

...Westen. Just Listen Records 2018 (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh) HERE The music here is relaxed, sweet jazz with Angelo Verploegen and his colleagues playing various standards they know well. Verploegen's...

A Conversation with John Haley - Audio Restoration Magician

Rushton Paul

...popular DSD format at the moment is DSD256. So, today, Bob is making his original digital transfer from his source tape in DSD256. Thus, we are getting a very high...

Recent Finds No. 51 Cornucopia of Excellence from NativeDSD

Rushton Paul

...DSD256 from the master tape in 2015 and released in this Pure DSD256 edition. This is a journey back in time for me to listen to this very lovely album...

La Fille Mal Gardée - A Delicious Guilty Pleasure from HDTT

Rushton Paul

Lanchbery-Herold, La Fille Mal Gardée, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by John Lanchberry. HDTT 1962 2017 (Pure DSD256) HERE These excerpts from John Lanchbery's 1960 adaptation...

You Need Only One - Reiner's Scheherazade from HDTT

Rushton Paul

...in Kingsway Hall. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Ernst Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. HDTT 1960, 2022 Pure DSD256 HERE HDTT Cover, Original Decca cover, London cover The Ansermet recording (above) enjoys...

Noelia Rodiles - Slavic Soul Complete With Sass in Pure DSD256

Rushton Paul

...with this recording. As usual, the recording is direct to DSD256 with no interim DXD processing, so it is Pure DSD. And it sounds like it: pure, clear, transparent, tonally...

Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin in Pure DSD256 from HDTT

Rushton Paul

...Holiday, with Ray Ellis and his orchestra. HDTT 1958, 2022 (Pure DSD256 transfer from a 15ips 2-track tape) HERE This new HDTT transfer in Pure DSD256 sounds more lifelike, with...

Anna Fedorova Shaping Chopin in Pure DSD256 from Jared Sacks

Rushton Paul

...mazurkas, nocturnes. Channel Classics 2021 (Pure DSD256) HERE Anna Fedorova is a compelling artist. She has virtuosic technique, but she plays in service to the music and the composer. There...

APSoon Recordings at the Organ, Phenomenal Music and Sonics in Pure DSD256

Rushton Paul

...blow you away. Aare-Paul Lattik, Live at Riga Cathedral. APSoon Records 2025 (Pure DSD256) Edit Master Sourced HERE This is the most recent release of organ music from the Estonian...

Recent Finds No. 72 NativeDSD Shows Again Why Not To Allow Format Dictate Music

Rushton Paul

...have but one Pure DSD256 album (and it is musically superb). The remaining albums are in more modest resolution PCM, but also musically superb even though missing that soupçon of...

Sacred Trance Music from Taos Mountain

Rushton Paul

Sacred Trance Music from Taos Mountain, Habib Chishti, Michael Rosell, Salman Hanuman Lee, Shawnina Good Road Woman. Yarlung Records 2020 (EP) (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh) HERE Go to your quiet...

More Gems from Just Listen Records

Rushton Paul

...Billy Strayhorn, Angelo Verploegen, Jasper van Hulten. Just Listen Records 2019 (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh) HERE When two very skilled artists come together to create a musical performance with music...

Indulging in Orchestral Extravagance with Chausson and Franck on RCA

Rushton Paul

...recordings of French music from anytime, from anywhere. Chausson Symphony in B-flat, Franck Le Chasseur Maudit, Munch, Boston Symphony. HDTT 1962 (Pure DSD256) HERE I am often justly criticized by...

Anna Fedorova, Among the Greatest Pianists Performing Today

Rushton Paul

...2024 (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh). HERE This new release is a marvel of artistic interpretation, pianistic excellence, and communicative value as Anna takes us on a journey from darkness to...

Penetrating Readings of Two Masterpieces by the Trío Arriaga - from Eudora in Pure DSD256

Rushton Paul

...Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich for Piano Trio, Trío Arriaga. Eudora Records 2022 (Pure DSD256, Stereo, MCh) HERE Spain's most renowned piano trio, Trío Arriaga, make a simply stunning first appearance on...

Two Masterpieces for Piano Performed by Javier Laso

Rushton Paul

...all around for this marvelous release. Schubert & Schumann, Javier Laso, Eudora Records (2021 (Pure DSD256) HERE Javier Laso plays Schubert's Sonata in B-flat Major, D.960 and Schumann's Davidsbundlertänz, Op....

Composer Maarten ter Horst, the Helikon String Quartet, and Cobra Records

Rushton Paul

...to DSD256 and release in that same format without interim PCM process for a Pure DSD release. And a further big plus for me, Tom records simultaneously to 2-channel, 5-channel,...

Recent Finds No. 52 An Eclectic Mix of Modern, Traditional, and Earlier

Rushton Paul

...find something here you will enjoy. Echoes of Budapest, a homage to three friends, The Hague String Trio. Cobra Records 2025 (DXD, DSD256, Stereo, Binaural, MCh) Edit Master Sourced HERE...

Soundkeeper Recordings – Bringing The Live Performance

Rushton Paul

...way means, among many other things, recording in a pure way, nothing close-mic'd, and no limiting, compression or outboard EQ to get in the way of the natural dynamics of...

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Just Listen: There’s Something Special Going On

A Conversation with John Haley - Audio Restoration Magician

Recent Finds No. 51 Cornucopia of Excellence from NativeDSD

La Fille Mal Gardée - A Delicious Guilty Pleasure from HDTT

You Need Only One - Reiner's Scheherazade from HDTT

Noelia Rodiles - Slavic Soul Complete With Sass in Pure DSD256

Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin in Pure DSD256 from HDTT

Anna Fedorova Shaping Chopin in Pure DSD256 from Jared Sacks

APSoon Recordings at the Organ, Phenomenal Music and Sonics in Pure DSD256

Recent Finds No. 72 NativeDSD Shows Again Why Not To Allow Format Dictate Music

Sacred Trance Music from Taos Mountain

More Gems from Just Listen Records

Indulging in Orchestral Extravagance with Chausson and Franck on RCA

Anna Fedorova, Among the Greatest Pianists Performing Today

Penetrating Readings of Two Masterpieces by the Trío Arriaga - from Eudora in Pure DSD256

Two Masterpieces for Piano Performed by Javier Laso

Composer Maarten ter Horst, the Helikon String Quartet, and Cobra Records

Recent Finds No. 52 An Eclectic Mix of Modern, Traditional, and Earlier

Soundkeeper Recordings – Bringing The Live Performance

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