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Various Artists – Chicago: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture (2002)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 70:00 minutess | Scans included | 4,52 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,46 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound
Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture is a soundtrack album featuring all of the original songs of the 2002 Best Picture Academy Award-winning musical film Chicago starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, Mýa Harrison and Christine Baranski.
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Various Artists – Concord Jazz: SACD Sampler, Vol.2 (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:03:07 minutes | Covers | 3,84 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround sound | Label: Concord Records | Release Year: 2004
The sound quality of this CD recording is fantastic, as it should be. The primary reason that I only gave it a four star rating over a five stars, is the fact that I am unfamilar with many selections, and I thought it would have a 50-50 mix of Real Jazz and Smooth Jazz. Otherwise, this SACD is really great, and I would recommend it to other lovers of Real Jazz music.
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Various Artists – Concord Jazz: SACD Sampler, Vol.1 (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 67:00 minutes | Covers | 4,26 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Covers included | 1,26 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround sound
Concord Records is proud to present this collection of highlights from its premiere releases in the breath-taking Hybrid SACD format. From intimate acoustic jazz, to swinging vocals, to percussive Latin jazz, to roaring big band, the SACD sound reveals all of the details and nuances in these landmark Concord recordings with stunning clarity and realism. Each track in this Hybrid SACD sampler can be heard in SACD multichannel surround sound or SACD Stereo. Hear these classic Concord recordings again for the first time, on SACD.
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Various Artists – Audiophile Trip – Super Audio CD sampler (2001)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:08:54 minutes | Covers | 2,83 GB
Label: Fonè | Release Year: 2001 | Genre: Classical
I have never been much of a classical music fan (on recorded music anyway) but hearing this Fone recording it actually makes sense for the 1st time! Listening to the SACD layer the music has striking 3-dimentional naturality but more importantly, PASSION! I have never felt that classical music had passion in a CD recording, & I always felt vinyl had too low SNR for classical music. The difference between the SACD & CD layer is quite obvious, & not subtle like on some discs. Listening to the CD layer (which is very good for a CD) results in a massive loss of coherence & passion – just the reason I never enjoyed classical on CD.
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Various Artists – Opus 3: Showcase 2005 (2005)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 68:03 minutes | Basic Scans included | 4,13 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Basic Scans included | 2,68 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/44,1kHz | Basic Scans included | 1,42 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Opus 3 Records # CD 22050
In what we believe is a very harmonic and enjoyable mix, Opus 3 offers a selection from their albums of music ranging from Blues, Jazz, World Music and Classical. Stimulating possibilities are made available on SACD’s and pure DSD.
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Various Artists – Unamas Master Selection (2021)
DSD256 (.dsf) 11,2 MHz/1 Bit | ~ 9.38 Gb | Time: 00:58:54
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 1.32 Gb
or 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 547 Mb
Official Digital Download | Genre: Classical | Label: Unamas
The album is a collection of gems that consist only of award-winning works of Professional Music Recording Award of Japan ‒ the most prestigious professional musical recording award in Japan ‒ and is a portfolio released by UNAMAS, the music label which has been releasing high quality works since 2007 the early days of Hi-Res surround sound.
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Various Artists – The Pink Panther and Friends (2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 50:26 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Jazz
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:26 minutes | 928 MB
Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic | Digital Booklet | © Fonè Records/Audiophile Productions
Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci; Recorded in stereo DSD on the Pyramix Recorder using dCS A/D and D/A converters
6 New renditions of the historic theme signed by Henry Mancini, performed for Fonè by: Fausto Mesolella, Enzo Pietropaoli, Eleonora Bianchini, Riccardo Zegna and Giampaolo Casati, Peo Alfonsi and Salvatore Malore, Scott Halmiton’s trio with Paolo Birro and Alfred Kramer.
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Various Artists – The Hot Spot: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1990/2009/2011)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 40:50 minutes | 1,61 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:50 minutes | 788 MB
Genre: Soundtrack | Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Analogue Productions
An amalgamation of swampy blues, jazz and rock – all mixed and recorded in a sparse, bloomy and eerie sort of way. This recording is just so damn fine, so airy and warm. And the musician’s aboard on this Dennis Hopper film are a who’s who, including Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Roy Rodgers, Earl Palmer and Tim Drummond. This has long been a highly sought after and collectible record among audiophiles. A true demonstration disc.
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Various Artists – Opus3: DSD Showcase 1 (2013)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 40:24 minutes | 1,68 GB
Official Digital Download – Source: DSDFile.com | Front cover
Showcase is a test/reference sampler for people interested in music and serious High Fidelity and who wants to test or enjoy good HiFi equipment with a carefully made selection of acoustic music, World, Folk, Blues, Jazz and Classical music in a harmonic mixture – from the latest Opus 3 releases.
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Various Artists – Proprius Records Audiophile Best (2016)
DSF Stereo DSD128, 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 01:16:51 minutes | 6,06 GB | Genre: Classical, Choral, Jazz
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:51 minutes | 1,38 GB
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic | Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD / Proprius Musik AB
In an advertisement for Proprius some years ago, Proprius founder Jacob Boëthius wrote: “A small record company can’t afford to put out bad discs. And you, the music lover, must be confident that what you buy is good”. He was aware that, in the final analysis, quality is what counts with regard to clients, record buyers, artists and sound engineers. This statement is mirrored totally in the 2xHD philosophy.
Proprius Records has always produced some of the most lifelike and incredibly realistic-sounding recordings available; from the mid-seventies on, it became pretty obvious to audiophiles that just about everything released by the label was a treasured commodity. With every recent advance in technology over the last couple of decades, these most highly regarded and sought-after recordings have been rereleased with regularity; most everyone out there has probably gladly bought them several times over in several different formats.
Now remastered in the optimum resolution from the original analog tapes – using the 2xHD proprietary system – the two audiophile labels, Proprius and 2xHD share an incomparable desire to reproduce and present the highest quality and most emotional listening experience.
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V.S.O.P. The Quintet – Tempest In The Colosseum (1977) [Japanese SACD Reissue 2007]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 69:21 minutes | Scans NOT included | 2,78 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans NOT included | 1,52 GB
Tempest in the Colosseum was recorded on July 23, 1977 in the Den-En Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan. Musicians for this performance were Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Tony Williams on drums, Ron Carter on double bass, and Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano saxophones. Originally the album was released in late 1977 only in Japan by Columbia.
Read moreV.S.O.P. The Quintet – Live Under The Sky (1979) [Japanese SACD Reissue 2007] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC
V.S.O.P. The Quintet – Live Under The Sky (1979) [Japanese SACD Reissue 2007]
PS3 Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 85:53 minutes | Scans included | 3,88 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,0 GB
V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky is a 1979 live album by the V.S.O.P. Quintet, a record of a performance at the 1979 Live Under the Sky Festival as it was performed live in Japan over two days. This, the fourth VSOP release, once again featured Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, and Freddie Hubbard.
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V.S.O.P. The Quintet – Five Stars (1979) [Japanese SACD Reissue 2007]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 32:38 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,31 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 369 MB
Recorded in Tokyo, Five Stars is a studio album featuring the Miles Davis alumnus quintet V.S.O.P. playing a handful of original compositions. Featured here are former Davis bandmates pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, joined by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Released around the same time as the concert album Live Under the Sky, Five Stars showcases the group’s frenetic, modal post-bop, played in the spirit of Davis’ classic ’60s quintet.
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Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra (Mariinsky) – Shostakovich Symphony 5 & 9 (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 73:36 minutes | Artwork (PDF) | 4,24 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Artwork (PDF) | 1,36 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Decca/Philips # 470 651-2
The argument could be made that Valery Gergiev and his Kirov orchestra’s 2002 recording of Shostakovich’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies on Philips is the ne plus ultra of Shostakovich recordings. The sound of the recording is staggering: crisp, rich, and vivid. The playing of the orchestra is stunning: plush, powerful, and precise. The conducting is superb: strong, firm, and flexible.
The argument could also be made that this is far more a Gergiev/Kirov recording than a Shostakovich recording. Gergiev interprets like mad: pushing and pulling tempos, stopping, starting, then suddenly changing the tempo altogether. His louds are overwhelming, his quiets are almost inaudible, and the distance between the two is incommensurable. There are times in this recording when it sounds as if the music is going to explode from the incredible and inexorable intensity of Gergiev’s interpretations. While nothing like the recordings of Yevgeny Mravinsky with the Leningrad Philharmonic, the conductor and orchestra that gave the work its premiere, Gergiev with the Kirov’s recording is nothing if it’s not the ne plus ultra.
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Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra (Mariinsky) – Shostakovich Symphony 4 (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 64:14 minutes | Artwork (PDF) | 3,96 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Artwork (PDF) | 1,17 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Decca/Philips # 475 6190
Valery Gergiev holds the opening movement of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 together by sheer willpower. Since the gargantuan movement sprawls like a drunken giant, lurching from pseudo-exposition through inchoate development and faux-recapitulation and amorphous coda, nothing else but willpower could possibly do it. And, amazingly enough, it works. With the tremendously muscular playing of the Kirov Orchestra, Gergiev makes chaos cohere and even convince, if not quite compel. After the opening movement, Shostakovich’s Fourth does hold together and hold together brilliantly. The central movement is as tight and hard as a blackjack and the closing movement, although even larger and longer than the opening, has a dramatic logic as rigorous and severe as a machine gun. But Gergiev’s will power never relaxes and his closing movement is not only coherent and convincing, it is immensely compelling. Indeed, taken altogether, Gergiev and the Kirov’s Fourth is surely the most compelling recording of the work to come out of Russia since Kiril Kondrashin’s premiere recording from the ’60s. No higher praise is possible. Philips’ sound has the impact and immediacy of a sledgehammer.
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