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Ray Brown/John Clayton/Christian McBride: SuperBass 2          (0 of 4 found this review helpful)
  November 20, 2014

Amazing performances. Amazing sonics. This is an early DSD recording, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing at all. It is pure DSD, recorded live and sounds amazing as it typical of these Telarc releases. Amazing, unadulterated Direct Stream Digital. Releases like this demonstrate how special DSD ... more
Mozart: Violin Sonatas, 1781 - Manze/Egarr        (0 of 9 found this review helpful)
  November 19, 2014

'recorded, edited and mastered in DSD'. The title entry needs to be edited to reflect this.
Monty Alexander: Monty Meets Sly and Robbie          (0 of 3 found this review helpful)
  October 19, 2014

Native DSD? As soon as I put it on, it certainly didn't sound like it. Sounded more like average quality PCM. Taking a look at the liner notes... "PCM to DSD upsampling with EMM labs DSD converter" Well, that settles that.
  October 12, 2014

Very nice music. Interesting and entertaining. Reading the liner notes, this was recorded on a Sadie DSD workstation, and very obviously makes liberal use of the "DSD-wide" processing. The unavoidable sonic penalty, which is quite obvious here compared to true DSD recordings, takes a star off the ... more
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8, Janacek: Jenufa (suite) - Honeck          (3 of 14 found this review helpful)
  September 12, 2014

This is indeed a DSD recording. I don't care what your Oppo says. Actually, your Oppo, or any other playback device, only sees DSD coming from an SACD. It doesn't matter what the recording medium is originally. What is coming off the disk is a DSD stream. Period. Now, you might be converting it ... more

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