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]]>The DAC Makers is a DSD Bundle that features 4 DSD Samplers with selections from the NativeDSD Presents label by AudioLab, Cary Audio, iFi Audio and Quad. When you purchase all 4, listeners receive a 40% discount on this great selection of DSD music.
NativeDSD Bundles are a mini collection of DSD albums created by the NativeDSD team that brings the works of a special artist, music label or musical genre to your personal library. Better yet, when you buy all of the albums in this bundle (in this case 4 sampler albums), NativeDSD gives you a special 40% OFF discounted price on the full bundle. Expanding your musical horizons and collection while saving money at the same time. Each DSD Bundle is a music opportunity and adventure we urge you to explore!
Native DSD music and iFi audio are proud to collaborate with the latest Stereo DSD 256fs sampler album to celebrate the launch of the flagship iFi Audio Professional series. The first product, the Pro iCan is a professional studio grade headphone amplifier and an audiophile line-stage. The Native DSD music album contains 4 cherry-picked DSD 256 songs for you to enjoy. Why iFi and Native DSD? It’s because we both bring out the best in each other.
iFi enjoys PCM and DSD, which is why the specially selected Burr-Brown chip was chosen as it keeps each format in its native state as it travels through the dac chipset. Both iFi and NativeDSD Music care passionately about the ultimate in sound quality and when it comes to DSD recordings, Native DSD Music continues to push the boundaries – with DSD256 recorded music. This is why we made this album for you, the listener.
Joachim Eijlander – “Prelude”
Josep Colom – “Waltz-in-A-Minor-Op-34-No-2”
Smoke & Mirrors Percussion Ensemble – “Udacrep Akubrad”
Thomas Baggerman and Eva Scholten – “Early Autumn”
Especially for existing and new Cary Audio users we have teamed up with NativeDSD to offer a DSD (Direct Stream Digital) Sampler album. This album contains the following 5 extraordinary DSD tracks:
Bill Evans – “It Could Happen To You”
Florilegium: Telemann Concertos & cantata Ihr Völker hört – “Overture in F major – La Tempete”
Breno Viricimo – “Carinhoso”
Jazz at the Pawnshop 2 – “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing)”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 & No. 7 – “Allegro”
Of all the British high-end hi-fi brands, Quad boasts the longest and most distinguished history. The company has been at the cutting edge of audio since 1936, continually pushing back the boundaries of performance with technologies both new and established. In 1953, the Quad II valve amplifier was launched, setting new standards for audio amplification, and three years later Quad invented the first full-range electrostatic speaker – later known as the legendary ESL 57.
Throughout the ensuing years, Quad products have continued to win worldwide acclaim, building a reputation for excellence that bears comparison with the most distinguished brands in any field. 80 years after its formation, Quad continues to be driven by the philosophy of its founder, Peter Walker, to produce “the closest approach to the original sound”. Its latest product line, Artera Series, incorporates a range of CD players and USB DACs that use state-of-the-art circuitry extending performance to ultra-high-resolution playback including the DSD audio format. Native DSD has partnered with Quad to curate a selection of Audiophile music taking you on a unique journey through Jazz, Vocal, Guitar and Classical genres, in high-resolution DSD format.
Brienn Perry – “That Old Black Magic”
Arne Domnerus, Bengt Hallberg, Egil Johansen, Georg Riedel & Lars Erstrand – “Mood Indigo”
Michala Petri & Mahan Esfahan: Violin in D Mino r, Op. 5, No. 7 – II. Corrente – Allegro
José M. Álvarez, Joaquín Riquelme, Pedro Mateo González – Sonata in E minor for Violin and Guitar – III. Menuetto
Utah Symphony conducted by Thierry Fischer – Control (Five Landscapes for Orchestra) – 3. Beehive
Formed in the early 1980s by Philip Swift and Derek Scotland, Audiolab earned worldwide acclaim with its range of hi-fi electronics including DACs, amplifiers, and CD players. Combining the company’s original ethos of simple, well-constructed ergonomics and crisp, transparent sound with innovative, performance-led design concepts, Audiolab products have won a plethora of awards, bringing enjoyment to music lovers all over the world. The latest evolutionary phase in Audiolab’s story focuses on the reproduction of high resolution audio. Their latest generation of CD players and DACs incorporate advanced circuitry, enabling the playback of DSD music files, including DSD 64, DSD 128 and DSD 256 file resolutions.
While NativeDSD.com provides an industry-leading platform for DSD music downloads – collaboration between the two companies is clearly a perfect fit. The result is a compilation exploring the latest in DSD high-resolution audio, and together we proudly present ‘Audiolab: The Sampler (DSD)’, available exclusively at nativedsd.com. The sampler explores an exciting selection of Pop, Jazz, Classical and Audiophile music, available in up to DSD 256 quality. Each track has been hand-picked to showcase the performance of Audiolab’s latest generation of DSD compatible players, while equally, it serves as the perfect introduction to the world of hi-res audio on any device.
Sonic Rade – “Firefly”
Dee Alexander “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
Noé Inui & Vassilis Varvaresos – Sonata in E-Flat Major Op. 18 – Improvisation, Andante cantabile
Sophisticated Lady – “Gone”
Breno Viricimo & Friends – “Loro”
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]]>Berlin Philharmonic member Joaquín Riquelme and pianist Enrique Bagaría explore a century of viola and piano masterpieces, including spellbinding performances of Brahms’ Sonata op. 120/1 and Hindemith’s Sonata op. 11/4. Schumann’s lyrical and brilliant Adagio and Allegro op. 70 and Enescu’s virtuoso Concertstück complete this masterly performed recording in DSD 256.
For this release, NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield has teamed with Eudora’s Producer and Recording Engineer Gonzalo Noque to take the album’s original DSD 256 recording session takes and then mixed and balanced them in the DSD domain using the Signalyst HQ Player Pro 4 mastering tools.
Each DSD bit rate is individually mixed, balanced, and remodulated to the DSD delivery quality in a separate individual pass. Bringing NativeDSD listeners an exclusive bonus – this wonderful album in Pure DSD! (Other editions of this album, including the Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) release were mixed in DXD.)
Joaquín Riquelme – Viola
Enrique Bagaría – Piano
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]]>The Brahms Project was recorded directly to DSD 256 Stereo and DSD 256 Multichannel with no DXD processing using Neumann U89i and Schoeps microphones, Horus Analog to DSD 256 converter from Merging Technologies, Grimm Audio cables, and Amphion Loudspeakers by Gonzalo Noque. NativeDSD brings this fine album to our listeners in the recorded DSD 256 resolution for your complete listening pleasure. It is exclusively available in the recorded Stereo and 5 Channel Pure DSD 256 format and bit rate from NativeDSD.
Reviewers tell us “Based on Neumann U89i and Schoeps microphones, the Producer and Recording Engineer Gonzalo Noque succeeded in providing a transparent, finely structured recording convincingly mirroring the very dynamic performance of the musicians and integrating the three strings and the Piano (Steinway & Sons) into a sound space with almost ideal acoustics.”
The Brahms Project
Josep Colomé – Violinist
Joaquín Riquelme – Violinist
David Apellániz – Cellist
Enrique Bagaría – Pianist
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]]>Händel’s Concerto grosso op. 6/12 and Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece Serenade op. 48 are also included in this stunning album, passionately performed by this young generation of Spanish musicians.
This is a Pure DSD 256 Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound release – recorded in Stereo and 5 Channel DSD 256 by Gonzalo Noque of Eudora Records. The other DSD bit rates (DSD 128, DSD 64) were created in the DSD Domain by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield using the Signalyst HQ Player 4 Pro mastering software.
Joaquin Riquelme, Viola
Cammerata
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]]>Throughout the ensuing years, Quad products have continued to win worldwide acclaim, building a reputation for excellence that bears comparison with the most distinguished brands in any field. 80 years after its formation, Quad continues to be driven by the philosophy of its founder, Peter Walker, to produce “the closest approach to the original sound”. Its latest product line, Artera Series, incorporates a range of CD players and USB DACs that use state-of-the-art circuitry extending performance to ultra-high-resolution playback including the DSD audio format.
2016 is a huge milestone for the revered audio manufacturer as it marks its 80th anniversary. To celebrate 80 years of Quad, Native DSD has partnered with Quad to curate a selection of Audiophile music taking you on a unique journey through Jazz, Vocal, Guitar and Classical genres, in high-resolution DSD format.
For information on how to claim a free copy of this album for a limited time with your Quad purchase, please visit www.quad-hifi.co.uk or speak to your local authorised Quad retailer.
Arne Domnerus
Bengt Hallberg
Brienn Perry
Colin Currie
Egil Johansen
Georg Riedel
Joaquin Riquelme
Jose Manuel Alvarez
Lars Erstrand
Mahan Esfahani
Michala Petri
Pedro Mateo Gonzalez
Thierry Fischer
Utah Symphony Orchestra
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]]>Rebay’s style is highly sophisticated, indebted to a tradition that goes back to Schubert, Brahms and Wagner, and the polar opposite to that of his contemporaries of the Second Viennese School, whose work so dominates our perceptions of the music history of that period. While Schoenberg claimed he was ensuring «the hegemony of German music» by making a clean break with the past, Rebay was more than happy to draw on that existing tradition. Had he stayed within the bounds of convention, he might simply have become an inferior successor to Brahms —instead, however, he stands out for having established his own unique style, melding folk music and the Austro.
This is a Pure DSD 256 Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound release – recorded in Stereo and 5 Channel DSD 256 by Gonzalo Noque of Eudora Records. The other DSD bit rates (DSD 128, DSD 64) were created in the DSD Domain by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield using the Signalyst HQ Player 4 Pro mastering software.
Joaquin Riquelme – Viola
Jose Manuel Alvarez – Violin
Pedro Mateo Gonzalez – Guitar
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