Hi @andybob
Here are a couple of my listening tests.
Quartet No. 7
Symphony No. 1, first movement
I can’t distinguish these instruments.
Dan
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Thanks for this, sadly, I don’t think either of these albums are on a streaming service. I’ll keep digging and maybe buy them.
The Beethoven quartets were recorded in live session at the library of congress in about 1963 on a two track Sony 1601 digital recorder (44.1 kHz 16 bit). It seems like someone would have made a CD set out to of the digital masters (before CD’s were in vogue :-)). I’m guessing that is what these
are where CD’s came from. But just look for a Julliard String Quartet of the full set of Beethoven string quartets… that only did the full series once.
BTW the vinyl I bought was NM M-
This is the Beethoven symphony track on Roon
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 - 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
Hi Dan,
This is the post and thread I was referring to in our chat today. What I was trying to say is that DSD is Pulse Density Modulation whilst a class D amp output to the power transistors is Pulse Width Modulation. Not very different at all.
Further up the thread you’ll find reference to the Lynx speakers Jussi was working on with a manufacturer. They accept up to DSD 128, convert to Pulse Width Modulation and drive inbuilt power transistors with it. Jussi didn’t take up my invitation to comment about the way they sound. He generally restricts his comments to whether something is mathematically accurate or not.
Let’s keep this thread going, what are some of your ‘go to’ audiophile test albums?
For the last few years, this is one of mine. It is mixed and mastered very well. Qobuz has it ins 88.2kHZ too:
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