Hi friends,
We are pleased to announce that Blue Coast World will be distributing the recording of Emily Palen's Solo Violin recording called "Glass".
The disc will be priced at $30 but for a short time, will be available for $25 at this website.
http://valencerecords.downloadsnow.net/glass
It was recorded at the extraordinary Grace Cathedral, San Francisco using the Extended Sound Environment technique. Emily's exquisite violin improvisations have been used extensively in sonic comparison tests because the masters were recorded to DSD and all recording processes have been under control from record to digital delivery.
We have kept the one bit DSD format throughout. The CD layer was mastered in the same process, so you can compare your CD layer with your DSD or SACD playback systems. At CES we used Track #3 (Light in the Fracture) to test the audio response on the Sony AR1 speakers (This year's winner of Absolute Sound's speaker of the year).
Those present for the demo comparisons had the unique opportunity to also hear the SACD coming from the Meitner DACs against the DSD masters from the Sonoma Systems playback master through the Meitner professional DSD DACs. Gus Skinas from Super Audio Center was onhand along with Yuki Sugiura from Sony to help with the demos as hundreds of people passed through our room to experience the comparisons.
The CD to SACD comparisons were obvious. Shrunken images and lack of dynamics could be heard in the CD sound. What was most surprising is that we could hear a clear difference in the Meitner DACs both playing back DSD. We can only suggest that the best sound is with DSD DACs for playback. It was a small difference, but audible.
Now, those of you who have an SACD player can experience Emily's violin performances the way we intended.
Many of you already own downloads these wonderful masters. Those that would like to experience a FREE DSD DOWNLOAD of one piece from the album can click below to download. (Requires Foobar or Audiogate to play)
http://audiogate.bluecoastrecords.com/
Positive Feedback, article one!
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue59/marenco.htm
Thank you to Positive Feedback for asking me to be a writer for their publication. If your interested to know some of the reasons why and how I came to be a recording engineer, along with the challenges we face as engineers, this article is for you. I'll be writing from a professional engineer standpoint for PF as I can. Please feel free to ask questions that I might be able to write and article on.
2012 is going to be a great year for DSD.
It was a pleasure meeting many of you in person.
Cookie and the Blue Coast Crew
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