What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

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Wilson Audiophile Recording.


Qobuz 176/24

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Wilson Audiophile Recording.

Outstanding.

Qobuz FLAC 176/24

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Technical Notes:
Description of equipment and processes used for Master Tape transfers in
Dave Wilson's Music Room:


Bruce Brown flew from Seattle to Provo to work
hand-in-hand with Dave and Daryl Wilson. Each Master Tape
was inspected, cleaned, and treated with Last #9 and #10
preservatives. All of the Master Tapes were baked to
reformulate the binding. This was done in an incubator at 135
degrees and then they were left to cool back down to room
temperature. All splices were inspected and repaired, if
necessary.


Each transfer was executed on the UltraMaster, a
one-of-a-kind Studer A80 designed and built by John Curl
with Custom electronics.

Each Master Tape was stored by Wilson Audiophile “tails-out”
in which Puget Sound Studios did a library wind to the take-up
reel. All levels were set according to included EQ sheets
and each 1KHz tone was further set at precisely 1KHz, via a
custom Vari-speed adjustment. This provided the exact speed
the Master Tapes were recorded at.

A total of five different Analog-to-Digital converters were
used to provide samples for the Wilsons to evaluate.
Ultimately an EMM Labs ADC-8 Mk IV, custom modified by
Andreas Koch, was chosen by Dave and Daryl Wilson for the
transfers from the UltraMaster using the original Master
Tapes into a Sonoma DSD workstation for capture and
editing.

Monitoring from the Sonoma DSD workstation was
routed though a modified Playback Designs MPS-5 via USB-X
with Light Harmonic USB cable. All DSD files were
transferred into a Merging Technologies Pyramix DSD/DXD
Masscore workstation for sample rate conversion, format
conversion, and meta-data tagging. The Pyramix Hepta filter
was used for conversion to PCM. Files were then listened to
for quality assurance.


Description of the Equipment used in the Provo, Utah “Wilson Music Room” that
Wilson Audiophile Recordings, LLC put to use for Sonic Evaluation:
Speakers: Wilson Audio Alexandria XLF, two Thor’s Hammers
Electronics: Apple Mac Mini, Amarra & Audirvana Plus, Weiss
! ! int 202, Audio Research DAC8, VTL 7.5 mk3 Pre-Amp, VTL
! ! Siegfried mk2 amplifiers, 2 Wilson Audio W.A.T.C.H.
! ! Controllers
Cables: Audioquest Firewire, Transparent Opus

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Fantastic.

Wilson Audiophile Recording

Qobuz FLAC 176/24

[bart]

Serge, you are on a Reference Recordiings high!


In my practice it was once again lute:

Francesco da Milano - Alberto da Mantova - Marco dall'Aquila - Italian Virtuosi of the Renaissance
Jakob Lindberg, lute
via Qobuz

[bart]

SACD 14 from this box:

Johann Sebastian Bach - Complete Organ Works played on Silbermann organs




Volume 14: Soultz-Haut-Rhin / Eglise Saint-Maurice

Gerhard Gnann, Silbermann Organ

In 5.0

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Originally Posted by bart

SACD 14 from this box:

Johann Sebastian Bach - Complete Organ Works played on Silbermann organs




Volume 14: Soultz-Haut-Rhin / Eglise Saint-Maurice

Gerhard Graun, Silbermann Organ

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Tremendous box set!

[bart]

What a good box this is!




I listened to Symphony 14 today. A truly magnificent work.




Wonderful performances by Marina Shaguch (soprano) and Arutjun Kotchinian (bass). The orchestra is as always very good and the sound in multichannel places you on the first rows of the concert hall.

[bart]

Originally Posted by SCAudiophile

Tremendous box set!

One to cherish indeed!

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Originally Posted by bart

SACD 14 from this box:

Johann Sebastian Bach - Complete Organ Works played on Silbermann organs




Volume 14: Soultz-Haut-Rhin / Eglise Saint-Maurice

Gerhard Graun, Silbermann Organ

In 5.0

Very nice Bart. I found them all on Qobuz. 19 total... Will make for a great Organ night!