The Positive Feedback DSD Samplers [DSD Bundle]

The Positive Feedback DSD Samplers is a DSD Bundle of 3 excellent DSD samplers from the Native DSD Music catalog. Personally curated by Positive Feedback Editor In Chief Dr. David Robinson, this DSD bundle brings you 26 selections which offer some of the finest DSD music available. Now at an amazing price!

David Robinson was one of the first audio experts to discover and write about the virtues of the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format.  His knowledge of DSD and the available DSD recordings on the market made him the perfect guide to DSD music for our listeners.

You can read more about him, Positive Feedback and his reasoning to select the DSD tracks in the booklet PDF. You can read the booklet with the button below the cover. It is also included in the .zip file with the DSD tracks.

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 3 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!

Positive Feedback DSD Sampler Volume 1

To create this sampler, NativeDSD invited Positive Feedback Editor In Chief Dr. David W. Robinson to select 10 DSD tracks from our catalog to celebrate the 1,000 album mark that we reached in September 2016.

David Robinson was one of the first audio experts to discover and write about the virtues of the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format.  His knowledge of DSD and the available DSD recordings on the market made him the perfect guide to DSD for new listeners.

1. Opening Piece From Glassworks – Philip Glass (composer), Lavinia Meijer
2. Grave, Metamorphoses for Cello and Piano – Lutoslawski (composer), Elinor Frey & David Fung
3. Two Yuletide Pieces for Piano Solo – Hanson (composer), David Craighead
4. Symphony No 2: Allegro Maestoso – Mahler (composer), Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra
5. Baubles, Bangles and Beads – Forrest (composer), Wright (composer), Bill Evans
6. Invention (from Album for Children) – Khachaturian (composer), Olga Martynova
7. Rhapsody in Blue (version for piano) – Gershwin (composer), Hyperion Knight
8. String Quartet: Quick, breathless – Matheson (composer), Color Field Quartet
9. Earth Wisdom (396 Hz) – Calderwood (comoser) Anima
10. Cantique de Noel – Adam (composer), Oscars’ Motet Choir

Positive Feedback DSD Sampler Volume 2

1. Contrapunctus 1 – Bach (composer), Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque
2. Sym. #7 in A major, op. 92 – II. Allegretto – Lutoslawski (composer), Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
3. Daphnis et Chloe Part I – Ravel (composer), Gustavo Gimeno, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
4. Debussy: Clair de Lune – Debussy (composer), Peter Halstead
5. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Festival Overture – Forrest (composer), Wright (composer), Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra Soloists
6. Mack The Knife – Weill (composer), Louis Armstrong
7. Korppoo Trio Mov. III Finale vivace – Sibelius (composer), Sibelius Piano Trio
8. Prelude to a Kiss – Ellington (composer), Stan Getz
9. La Cathedrale engloutie – Debussy (composer), Ilya Itin

Positive Feedback DSD Sampler Volume 3 – DSD 512 Sampler

1. Italian Concerto in F Maj., BWV 971 Allegro – J.S. Bach (composer), Jory Vinikour
2. All Blues – Miles Davis (composer), Yuki Mabuchi Trio
3. Song of Alexander Nevsky – Prokofiev (composer), Thierry Fischer, Utah Symphony Orchestra
4. Light Is Calling – Michael Gordon (composer), Maya Fridman
5. Sonata F Maj. – original E-Maj. – Allegro – J.S. Bach (composer), Michala Petri, Hille Perl & Mahan Esfahani
6. C Min. Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio – Beethoven (composer), Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra
7. Hell I – Giovanni Sollima (composer), Maya Fridman

Big thanks to Dr. David Robinson at Positive Feedback for carefully creating the third volume of the Positive Feedback DSD Sampler that highlights Stereo DSD 512 tracks.

With Volume 3, we focus attention on the even higher resolution format of Stereo DSD 512…8x DSD! We are sure that this selection of DSD 512 tracks will give you a sense of the possibilities that ultra-resolution DSD offers to the discriminating and demanding music lover and audiophile. Every effort has been made to be reasonably eclectic, but the significantly increased file size of DSD 512 tracks has limited the number of selections that Dr. Robinson could select for this new DSD 512 sampler.

Positive Feedback was the first audiophile journal to come out in support of DSD and SACD, in the fall of 1998, after visiting Mobile Fidelity’s demonstration of the new DSD technology in Sebastopol, California. (See the republication of David Robinson’s original article on DSD in Issue 1 of PF Online at https://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue1/MoFiDSD.htm)

The magazine’s support for DSD and SACD has never wavered since then and has been confirmed by developments in the audio arts and in the marketplace. Positive Feedback is a high-end audio journal that has been in publication since January of 1990. It was published with paper and ink for the first thirteen years of its existence, and then merged with Dave and Carol Clark’s magazine, Audio Musings in Southern California, and converted to fully online publication under the Positive Feedback brand by June of 2002.

With a subtitle of “A Creative Forum for the Audio Arts,” PF has been a very dynamic and wide-ranging magazine, with a large community of over 80 associated editors and writers, located online at https://www.positive-feedback.com. It currently verifies 370,000 – 400,000 readers worldwide per month and is generally recognized as a major and influential voice in the global audiophile community. It maintains a social networking presence on both Facebook and Twitter. There is no charge for visiting and reading PF, and all back issues are maintained in our online archives (https://positive-feedback.com/archive/) for easy public access.” — Dr. David Robinson, Editor In Chief, Positive Feedback

Read David’s personal notes about each track in the booklet!

Anima
Bill Evans
Brecon Baroque
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Color Field Quartet
David Craighead
David Fung
Elinor Frey
Gustavo Gimeno
Hille Perl
Hyperion Knight
Ilya Itin
Ivan Fischer
Jory Vinikour
Lavinia Meijer
Louis Armstrong
Mahan Esfahani
Manfred Honeck
Mariinsky Orchestra Soloists
Maya Fridman
Michala Petri
Olga Martynova
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Oscar’s Motet Choir
Peter Halstead
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Rachel Podger
Sibelius Piano Trio
Stan Getz
Thierry Fischer
Utah Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev
Yuko Mabuchi Trio