Many music critics, listeners, and audiophiles (myself included) consider the Georg Solti Ring to be the greatest recording of all time. It is difficult to dispute that conclusion. First of all, the size and scope ...

Good album covers make you want to hear the record, creating curiosity and building expectations. They help set the tone, whet your appetite, fire your imagination, and—when you finally listen to the music—enhance the listening ...

Bernard Hoffer’s 2012 Violin Concerto begins with the unaccompanied violin announcing the work’s germinal motive: repeated staccato notes followed by a longer-held chord. Soon the soloist and his orchestral partners are tossing it back and ...

The following is a press release issued by Yarlung Records. December 4, 2015 | Los Angeles, CA. - Yarlung Records announced the release of a new addition to its critically acclaimed series of 45 RPM ...

Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s last project for Reference Recordings garnered a 2015 Grammy nomination for Best Orchestral Recording, so expectations were high for this one, too. Perhaps that’s unfair, as Bruckner makes ...

The tango was born in the late 1800s in Buenos Aires, where it was first danced in grimy bars and brothels. It began as a souped-up habanera, a slower dance made famous in 1875 (and ...

November 2, 2015 - HDtracks.com, the largest online vendor of computer audio file downloads, has expanded their offerings to include Direct Stream Digital (DSD)-encoded files. Already offering Digital eXtreme Definition (DXD) files, which are PCM ...

The following is a press release issued by Analog Audio. October 28, 2015 - Join Analog Audio of Minnesota on Saturday Nov. 7th at 2PM for its third annual Brinkmann Audio Spin Party. Andrea Brinkmann, ...

Yarlung hits a home run! This is its first 45rpm release, and Bernie Grundman cut the lacquers directly from the tape. The sound is clear and warm, intimate, and not too wide. The instruments are ...

The third and final Mercury Living Presence CD collection was recently released. With the addition of the 53 CDs in this album, all of the remastered recordings supervised by Wilma Cozart Fine in the 1990s ...

If the compact disc is (as some say) dying out as a storage medium, it’s going out with a bang, at least as far as great recordings of classical music go. For the past dozen ...

Unless you’re a recording industry professional, you may not have heard of Don Grossinger. But the odds are good you’ve heard his work. Grossinger has been a mastering engineer for over three decades, and the ...

The following is press release issued by The Tape Project. San Francisco, CA | August 4, 2015 - The Tape Project and Bottlehead invite you a special event at the California Audio Show to meet ...

When Lori Goldstein strolled onstage at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18, 1993, to accompany Nirvana through its videotaped MTV Unplugged session, few could predict the unassuming cellist would spark a ...

Imagine a digital-audio encoding and decoding system that delivers far better sound quality than that of any previous analog or digital technology, including 192kHz/24-bit and quad-rate DSD. Now imagine that this system’s bit rate is ...