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Opus 3 - Test CD 4: Acoustic Music In Authentic Enviroments (2001) MCH PS3 ISO

Opus 3 - Test CD 4: Acoustic Music In Authentic Enviroments (2001)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 75:39 min | Full Scans included | 3,64 GB
- Depth of Image - Timbre - Dynamics - | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound

Test CD 4 contains a generously varied selection of acoustic music from the Opus 3 catalogue, with advisers concerning special points to listen for on each track. Again like its predecessors, the new test record makes an enjoyable music sampler, all the more so as it includes no fewer than 17 tracks from 17 different Opus 3 titles, most of them recent releases.
Groove Armada - Vertigo (1999) [Reissue 2002] MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Groove Armada - Vertigo (1999) [Reissue 2002]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 64:58 minutes | Scans included | 4,46 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,82 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,37 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound

Vertigo is the second studio album by the British electronic music duo Groove Armada, released on the Jive Electro record label. It contains the well-known singles "At the River" (which was previously featured on the duo's debut album Northern Star) and "I See You Baby".
Bill Evans - Explorations (1961) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Bill Evans Trio - Explorations (1961) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 51:01 minutes | Scans included | 1,52 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 1,33 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans included | 1,21 GB

Explorations is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans that was originally released on Riverside label in 1961. It was the second album Evans recorded with his trio of Scott LaFaro on bass and Paul Motian on drums. The album won the Billboard Jazz Critics "Best Piano LP" poll for 1961.
Hector Berlioz - BSO, Munch - Requiem (1959, SACD 2005) {2x Hybrid-SACD // ISO & HiRes FLAC}

Hector Berlioz - Requiem
Boston Symphony Orchestra - Charles Munch
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,60 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,57 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA "Living Stereo" # 82876-66373-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2005, 1959
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…This is a performance that holds your attention from first note to last–a rare feat in this work. (Munch's later Deutsche Grammophon effort pales by comparison, both sonically and interpretively.) If you want this Berlioz Requiem (and you do), SACD is the way to hear it.

Gene Bertoncini - Concerti (2008) PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC  Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at June 7, 2021
Gene Bertoncini - Concerti (2008) PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Gene Bertoncini - Concerti (2008)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 51:25 minutes | Scans included | 1,45 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,33 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,06 GB

One of the more elegant, tasteful, and sensitive guitarists, Gene Bertoncini has perfected the art of playing soft, sentimental music and presenting it in a light, fluid fashion, yet retaining a degree of feeling and spontaneity.
Johannes Brahms - Artur Rubinstein / CSO, Fritz Reiner - Piano concerto No. 1 (2005, 1955) {Hybrid-SACD // ISO & HiRes FLAC}

Johannes Brahms - Piano concerto No. 1
Artur Rubinstein, piano / Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner
SACD ISO (2.0): 765 MB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 840 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal "Living Stereo" # 82876-66378-2 RE1 | Country/Year: US 2005, 1955
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…In essence, this is glorified stereo with remarkable presence – one feels quite close to Rubinstein, & the CSO seems only feet away – but there is no additional surround sound depth. For the sake of authenticity, this is just as well, & Rubinstein & Reiner at least are not misrepresented through creative engineering. One may regret, however, that this SACD has no bonus tracks & find that it offers less value than other titles in the line.

David Bowie - Heathen (2002) MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC  Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at June 13, 2021
David Bowie - Heathen (2002) MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

David Bowie - Heathen (2002)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 71:44 minutes | Basic Scans included | 5,58 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Basic Scans included | 2,16 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 69:53 min | Basic Scans | 1,7 GB
Features Stereo Multichannel Surround Sound

Heathen (stylised as uǝɥʇɐǝɥ) is the 22nd studio album by English musician David Bowie. It was considered a comeback for him in the US market by becoming his highest charting album since Tonight (1984). It also earned strong reviews. The BBC said the album's title track "shows that Bowie could still pen disarmingly direct, affecting pop of a very individual inclination 30-plus years after he started". Worldwide, it sold more than two million copies and experienced a four-month run on the UK charts. The album has also been released in SACD format in a limited number of copies with slightly longer versions of five of the songs.
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega (1985) [Japan 2018] SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega (1985) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:00 minutes | Scans included | 1,09 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1002 MB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 914 MB

Suzanne Vega is the self-titled debut album by Suzanne Vega. It was well-received by music journalists in the U.S. and reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. Produced by Lenny Kaye and Steve Addabbo, the songs feature Vega's acoustic guitar in straightforward arrangements. In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine listed Suzanne Vega at number 80 on its "100 Best Albums of the Eighties". It is also mentioned in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Sviatoslav Richter - Deutsche Grammophon Concerto Recordings (2019) [Japan 2019] 3x SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Sviatoslav Richter - Deutsche Grammophon Concerto Recordings (2019) [3x SACD]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 219:09 min | Scans incl. | 5,86 GB
or DSD64 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 5,18 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans included | 4,66 GB
Features 1958, 1959 & 1962 Recordings | Deutsche Grammophon / Tower Records, Japan # PROC 2196~8

From the heyday of Svyatoslav Richter, all the concertos recorded by DG from 1958 to 62 were assembled into 3 pieces (except Disc 3, these are 1st time on SACD). Features the works by Robert Schumann, W.A. Mozart, Sergey Prokofiev, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninov & P.I. Tchaikovsky. This is a Sviatoslav Richter's special collaboration with Wittold Lovitki, Kurt Sanderling, Herbert von Karajan, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, etc. Features the new mastering from the original analogue master tapes.
The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy (1973) [Reissue 2001] MCH PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy (1973) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD 2.0 & DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:49 minutes | Full Scans included | 3,88 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:06 min | Full Scans included | 1,3 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | 48:06 min | Full Scans included | 1,09 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound

Ship Ahoy is a R&B album by Philadelphia soul group The O'Jays. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching #1 on Billboard's "Black Albums" chart and #11 on the "Pop Albums" chart and launching two hit singles, "For the Love of Money" and "Put Your Hands Together." Conceived as a theme album built around the title track, Ship Ahoy includes socially relevant tracks and love songs under a cover that is itself notable for its serious subject matter. Ship Ahoy was the highest selling R&B album on the Billboard Year-End chart for 1974. This album achieved RIAA platinum certification for over 1 million copies sold in 1992.