Earlier today, Sony Electronics Car Audio, based in San Diego, California announced that the MEX-DV2000 will be the first of Sony's new Super Audio CD equipped Car Audio products in the U.S. market. According to Sony, the MEX-DV2000 is now available for purchase from U.S. ...
Chesky Records newest Surround Sound SACDs are a new recording of The Jobim Songbook In New York by The David Hazeltine Trio and a Surround Sound SACD reissue of Rebecca Pidgeon's audiophile classic The Raven. The Jobim Songbook In New York is another in ...
Sony Classical has released the newest album by Pianist Arcadi Volodos in Surround Sound SACD. Titled Volodos Plays Liszt, the disc is the artist's first album that solely focuses on compositions by Franz Liszt.
Linn Records is extending their Super Audio CD "Classic Album Promotion" through the month of July. The promotion offers two collections of 10 Linn Records SACD releases (Classical and Jazz) for $99.99. This is quite a deal when you consider that these Super ...
The latest SACD releases from Norwegian label 2L, include titles from the Cikada Duo and a disc from the Dena Piano Duo featuring works by Mozart and Grieg. From 2L:
Telarc has released Surround Sound Super Audio CD editions of the latest albums by Jazz Pianist Hiromi and Classical Guitarist David Russell. The albums - Time Control by Hiromi and her Sonicbloom band and Art of the Guitar by David Russell - are "day and ...
Super Artists on Super Audio, Volume 4 from Channel Classics Records is the latest in the label's Super Audio CD sampler series. Channel Classics is based in the Netherlands and was one of the first European labels to market original Direct Stream Digital (DSD) ...
The latest Super Audio CD release from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs is the 20th Anniversary Edition of Whites Off Earth Now!! by punk rockers the Cowboy Junkies. The album was the group's debut album and was originally recorded live at Studio 547 on June ...
The Automotive Systems Division of Bose surprised many at this year's Geneva Motor Show with the unveiling of The Bose Media System. This is a new car audio system that supports Surround Sound Super Audio CD and DVD Audio disc playback as well as ...
SonyBMG's RCA Red Seal classical music label has released a Surround Sound SACD featuring the first in a new cycle of recordings of the Mahler Symphonies by David Zinman conducting the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. The new SACD includes performances of Mahler's First Symphony as well ...
For February, Telarc brings us another Surround Sound Super Audio CD by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Russian Nights is a "day and date" release with both the Hybrid Surround Sound SACD and the CD Audio edition of this album arriving on February ...
On The Wings Of An Eagle by the jazz trio of pianist John Hicks, bass player Buster Williams and drummer Louis Hayes is the latest edition of the New York Sessions Super Audio CD series from Chesky Records. Chesky's February Surround Sound SACD release continues ...
The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard, the new album from Rickie Lee Jones, is now available from New West Records in 5.1 Super Audio CD Surround Sound. The SACD version of the album is available on a special "Limited Edition Release" edition that features the ...
Opus 3 Records, the audiophile record label based in Sweden is celebrating their 30th Anniversary with a new Suepr Audio CD. Titled the 30th Anniversary Celebration Album, the Surround Sound SACD covers the label's 30 years of recordings with 19 selections from their catalog. ...
Petula Clark, the 1960's pop singer who is best known for her song "Downtown" is the latest artist to be featured by Top Music International in a new Hybrid Stereo Super Audio CD. Top Music International is based in Hong Kong and frequently reissues ...
Moody Blues fans were excited to learn that the Super Audio CD editions of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and Seventh Sojourn are now scheduled for release in the U.K. and Europe on April 2nd. The news follows last year's release of five of ...
Sony is bringing out three Car Stereo players with Super Audio CD. That's the big news this week from Sony Electronics headquarters in Japan.
CES 2007: Telarc offered a series of announcements for this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2007) in Las Vegas. The label is planning to release 15 Surround Sound Super Audio CDs. To celebrate their continued activity in high resolution audio, Telarc also announced ...
CES 2007: With the coming of the new year the annual Consumer Electronics Show or "CES" as its called in the industry is just two days away. High Fidelity Review readers know from past years that the consumer electronics, computer and audio media arrive ...
Chesky Records continues to expand its catalog of "Hi Def Jazz" recordings in Super Audio CD Surround Sound with the release of Personal Favorites by Fred Hersch. The album features songs selected by the Jazz pianist for this collection.
Azalea City Recordings has announced that Hambo In The Snow, a Surround Sound Super Audio CD of Christmas Music has received a 2007 Grammy Award Nomination in the category of Best Traditional World Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental). The album features the trio of ...
The Recording Academy has announced the nominees for their 2007 "Best Surround Sound Album" Grammy Award. Nominees in "Field 28 - Surround Sound and Category 93" of the 2007 Grammy Awards Competition featured albums by artists including Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Melissa Etheridge, Emmylou Harris, ...
Audiophile label Opus 3 Records in Sweden continues to release albums in Super Audio CD Surround Sound. In their latest release, the label is presenting a new Swedish jazz singer named Maria Winther in an album titled Dreamsville. The disc is named after ...
Telarc wraps up 2006 with two more Surround Sound Super Audio CD releases. Mega Movies by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is the long awaited 5.1 Surround Sound SACD edition of this very popular album of movie themes. Also new from ...
Swedish based Opus 3 Records has released a new Surround Sound SACD titled A Unique Classical Guitar Collection. The new SACD features selections from the label's 6 earlier Classical Guitar albums. These albums featured performances by the Stockholm Guitar Quartet, Peder Riis, Duodecima and ...
Swedish based Opus 3 Records has released a new Surround Sound SACD titled A Unique Classical Guitar Collection. The new SACD features selections from the label's 6 earlier Classical Guitar albums. These albums featured performances by the Stockholm Guitar Quartet, Peder Riis, Duodecima and ...
Telarc's latest Surround Sound Super Audio CD release is a collection of 45 waltzes performed by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. The new SACD titled The Never Ending Waltz was released to music stores on both Super Audio CD and CD Audio ...
Irish pop/folk singer Eleanor McEvoy's newest album entitled Out There has been released as a Stereo Super Audio CD by the Moscodisc label. The new album features the talented artist performing 15 songs including two classics (Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" and Lowell George's ...
Universal Music's Deutsche Grammophon label has released a new Surround Sound Super Audio CD by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In performances conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, the orchestra performs several classic compositions: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Mussorgsky's Night On A Bare Mountain and ...
A collection of performances titled the World's Greatest Audiophile Vocal Recordings has been released by Chesky Records as one of their latest Surround Sound Super Audio CD releases. The new Super Audio CD joins two more from the label's New York Sessions SACD series ...
Rocker Little Richard comes to Super Audio CD with a 24 song collection of his biggest hits of the late 1950's from the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab label. The new set consists of selections from the first two of the rock star's albums on ...
Moody Blues fans in the U.S. were treated to three more Moody Blues Hybrid Super Audio CD releases by Universal Music Group's Polydor label under the Deram and Threshold imprints that the albums originally appeared under in the U.S. and Europe. The three two-disc ...
The Nearness of You by Jazz Saxophone player Bennie Wallace is now available in the U.S. Market. Originally released by the Enja Records label in Germany as a Hybrid Stereo Super Audio CD, the album has been available in Europe for some time. ...
Sony's Super Audio CD Project has announced that the SACD format has now passed the 4,000 mark when it comes to albums released. According to Sony SACD Project officials, the Super Audio CD that hit the 4,000 title mark was the album Structures by ...
Today Telarc released two new Surround Sound SACDs. The new albums are Consequence of Chaos by famed guitarist Al Di Meola and performances of compositions by Brittan and Elgar by Paavo Jarvi conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. As with most new Telarc Super ...
CEDIA 2006: Yamaha Electronics "unveiled" two new players in their Natural Sound product line that are capable of SACD, DVD Video and DVD Audio disc playback. The new models are the Yamaha DVD-S2700 and the DVD-S1700 players which are due out before year's end.
CEDIA 2006: Integra Home Theater showed their new DPS-6.7 Disc Player at this weekend's CEDIA Home Theater Convention. Integra refers to the DPS-6.7 as a "Multi-Format Player" rather than the more familiar Universal Disc Player label that component makers often give to disc players ...
CEDIA 2006: NAD Electronics introduced the company's upcoming M5 SACD and CD Disc Player at this week's CEDIA Home Theater Show at the Denver Convention Center. The M5 will be brought to market later this year as part of NAD's "Masters Series" line of ...
Telarc's latest Surround Sound SACDs feature actress, singer and songwiter Ann Hampton Callaway and the Diva Jazz Orchestra with Blues In The Night and the Soprano Christine Brewer and Donald Runnicles conduting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performing compositions by Wagner and Strauss. As is ...
CEDIA 2006: Cary Audio has announced that they will be introducing their second High Resolution Audio Disc player, the DVD 8 All Format Disc Player, at next week's CEDIA Home Theater Show. The CEDIA show will be held at the Denver Convention Center from ...
Chesky Records has released two new Surround Sound Super Audio CDs to kick off their New York Sessions "Hi Def Jazz" Series. The initial releases which Chesky describes as being "unleashed" in August are Manhattan by the David Hazeltine - George Mraz Trio with ...
ArkivMusic.Com is offering Super Audio CDs from Albany Records for only $9.99 each. The offer also includes the balance of the label's catalog as well. This is a savings of $7 per disc. Albany Records is a division of Albany Music Distribution which ...
Japanese Guitarist Dai Kimura has teamed up with Andrew York on a Hybrid Stereo Super Audio CD from Sony Music Japan International. California Breeze is Kimura's fourth album and the third that Sony Music Japan has released as a Stereo SACD. In this case ...
David Chesky, the owner of Chesky Records, has announced plans to convert the New York-based audiophile label's releases to Single Inventory Super Audio CDs starting in August 2007. The news comes on the heels of the label's new New York Sessions series of Jazz ...
Chesky Records is launching a new series of Super Audio CD releases that will begin appearing in music stores in August. Titled the "New York Sessions", the releases will be taken from recording sessions at the St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, New York and ...
AIX Records announced the completion of a custom sampler disc delivered to Acura in Japan containing 7 high resolution, 5.1 surround music tracks from their collection, including the CEA “Demmy” award winning ‘Mosaic’ from Laurence Juber’s Guitar Noir DVD-Audio/Video disc. Known as the ‘Gift Of ...
Telarc's July Super Audio CD release is the long-awaited Big Band Tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra. The new album entitled Dear Mr. Sinatra is the first album recorded with the Super Audio Center's 32 Track Sonoma Direct Stream Digital (DSD) Workstation. ...
High Note Records in New York continues their Hybrid Stereo SACD "midline" jazz collections with two more entries. The fifth and sixth Super Audio CDs in this series each feature 10 tracks from the High Note Records Jazz Catalog at the bargain list price ...
EMI Capitol in Europe has released Kraftwerk's Minimum-Maximum album as a Hybrid Surround Sound Super Audio CD. The new edition of this live album of the 4 member electronic music group features a number of the group's best known material, including the 1970's hit ...
Basie Is Back, a newly recorded album by the Count Basie Orchestra is now available as a Hybrid Layer Surround Sound Super Audio CD. The album has been released by Eighty-Eight's, the Japanese Jazz label that specializes in audiophile recordings.
HE 2006: Telarc used this weekend's HE 2006 show to launch their two newest SACDs: a newly created Surround Sound edition of the classic Round Up album featuring Frankie Laine and Erich Kunzel conducting the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and a Surround Sound SACD entitled Some ...
HE 2006: The launch of the next-generation Blu-Ray disc format was a featured attraction at this weekend's Home Entertainment 2006 (HE 2006) show in Los Angeles. HE 2006 is sponsored by Primedia, the publishers of Stereophile Magazine and is being held at the Sheraton ...
Universal Music Group's operation in the United States has announced the upcoming release of three Super Audio CDs in the American market. The new SACDs include a new Classical Music Surround Sound SACD arriving in the Fall and two SACDs by the Moody Blues. ...
Guitarist Bert "East" Ostlund is featured on the newest Surround Sound Super Audio CD release from Opus 3 Records. It is a Single Inventory Hybrid Multichannel Super Audio CD with the SACD disc serving as both the SACD and CD edition of the album.
Classé have announced the CDP-202, a reference-quality CD player with DVD-Audio capabilities, which follows closely on the heels of the CDP-102, introduced late last year.
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln and musical director Semyon Bychkov feature on the latest SACD from Avie Records.
TACET have release an SACD of Beethoven Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8, performed by the Polish Chamber Orchestra.
One of the latest SACDs from ARTS Music is the strangely titled ‘Esa Noche Yo Baila - Feast und Devotion in High Peru of the 17th Century’ performed by Musica Ficta.
Crossing, the new album by David Elias and his group Xing (pronounced Crossing) is now available as a Single Inventory Surround Sound Super Audio CD. Elias is an independent acoustic folk singer and songwriter based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab continues its mining of the 4 Channel Surround Sound catalog of the Vox/Turnabout label with their new release of An American In Paris. The new Surround Sound Super Audio CD features Leonard Slatkin conducting the Saint Louis Symphony with pianist ...
Universal Music has added 6 new Classical Music Super Audio CDs to their upcoming release list. The new SACDs are all shown with an in store availability date of July 12th. The SACDs follow a number of Classical Music releases during April and ...
A Single Inventory Surround Sound SACD of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Brothers In Arms by the Dire Straits was released this past Monday by Vertigo Records and Universal Music International's Mercury Records U.K. division. The much anticipated anniversary edition of this 1980's rock ...
Linn Products, a well known audiophile firm based in Glasgow, Scotland and Sony Japan are the latest consumer electronics companies to issue advisories about using their optical disc players with the new Dual Disc format developed by Warner Music in the U.S. High Fidelity ...
Independent company 5.1 Production Services, long a leader in the music industry’s evolution toward multimedia content, made history today with the completion of its 100th DualDisc title, Lauren Ellis’s ‘Feels Like Family’.
Sony's PlayStation 3 announcement upped the ante in the computer gaming and music world earlier today with the news that the system will support Super Audio CD and Dual Disc playback along with a host of gaming, computer and High Definition TV features.
An album by The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones on vocals and piano entitled New York City is the latest Super Audio CD to be released in Taiwan. The new Hybrid Layer Stereo SACD follows earlier Norah Jones performances on the Ray Charles Surround ...
Denon's proprietary, high-performance digital audio interface now provides full support for SACD digital transmission. Denon Link is a digital transmission technology developed by Denon that has won high critical acclaim as the best sounding high-performance digital audio interface.
There are two new classical SACD titles from BIS Records this month, the Chinese Rhapsody by Ge Gan-ru, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conducted by José Serebrier, together with a set of five (non-hybrid) discs of the organ music of J. S. ...
The Super Audio CD Project Team in Europe has announced the release later this month of the 3000th album on the format. With poignancy and significance, this landmark Super Audio CD album is scheduled to be ‘Brothers in Arms’ by Dire Straits. Released by Mercury ...
The RIAA published the final specifications relating to the new DualDisc format earlier today. All licensing and logo usage is controlled by the RIAA, with specifics available from their dedicated web site.
3Bone Audio has announced the launch of a new record label, Sweet Spot Music Group. Not specific to any genre, the independent label's releases will be on every format, from vinyl, CD, MP3 and DVD-Audio.
The latest SACD from Avie features young pianist Luiza Borac, who proves her prowess with the core repertoire of two pillars of the romantic era, Schubert and Liszt. Released as a Hybrid SACD, 'Wanderer: Works by Liszt and Shubert' is said by Avie to demonstrate ...
Telarc and its Heads Up Jazz label has released the latest albums by John Pizzarelli, the Yellowjackets and Paavo Jarvi conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Surround Sound Super Audio CD. All three discs are "day and date" releases - arriving in music stores ...
5.1 Entertainment and DVDplus have entered an agreement to use DVDplus technology under the DualDisc trademark in Europe, John Trickett, Chairman and CEO of the 5.1 Entertainment Group, and Dieter Dierks, Chairman and CEO of DVDplus International Inc., announced today.
Lexicon is expanding its range of disc players with the new RT-20, a reference-quality universal disc transport designed to play virtually any of the 5-inch optical media discs available today. The RT-20 supports CD (including CD-R/RW, Video CD, SVCD and MP3), DVD (including DVD-Video, DVD-Audio ...
NAB 2005: The big news from this year's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention isn't on the show floor, but behind the scenes. After weeks of speculation in the industry, word is starting to leak out that the proponents of the next-generation Blu-Ray and ...
The latest DVD-Audio title from TACET is a recording of Beethoven’s String Quartets op. 18, nos. 1-6, the first in a series of four discs from the Auryn Quartet, Matthias Lingenfelder and Jens Oppermann (violin), Stewart Eaton (viola) and Andreas Arndt (violoncello).
A collection of 17 of Nat King Cole's Greatest Hits are now available on a new Hybrid Layer Stereo Super Audio CD from Top Music International. The new SACD is entitled "The King of Sound" and is another in the series of Audiophile Super ...
Audiophile label AIX Records launched 2006 with releases of two surround sound multimedia DVD-Audio/Video discs. The new AIX Records double-sided DVDs include a new release by drum virtuoso Simon Phillips (of the group Toto) and his collaborator Jeff Babko, keyboardist for Jimmel Kimmel Live.
At MIDEM 2006, Sonopress presented its entire range of DualDisc services. The Gütersloh-based media service provider acquired a license for the replication of DualDiscs from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the middle of last year.
Minnetonka’s discWelder BRONZE DVD-Audio authoring tool is to be included with select Hewlett Packard workstations – the models include the XW4300, XW6200, XW8200 and XW9300.
Luiza Borac’s latest SACD for Avie, which includes Enescu, The Two Piano Sonatas, Nocturne, Prelude and Fugue, Pièce sur le nom de Fauré, Scherzo, will be released on 27th February.
Arts music has announced their latest SACD release, Bach Suites Nos. 1 – 4, performed by Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti. The following information from Andrea Hentschke of Arts:
Five classic albums by the Moody Blues will be released in Super Audio CD 5.1 Surround Sound this March in the U.K. The Surround Sound SACDs will arrive as Deluxe Editions of the group's original albums and will include Days of Future Passed, In Search ...
The Sanctuary Records Group has filed a countersuit in its dispute over Dual Disc licensing with Los Angeles based 5.1 Entertainment Group. Dual Disc is a two-sided flipper disc that has CD Audio content on one side and DVD content on the other side.
CES 2006: U.K. based Meridian Audio Limited used this year's Consumer Electronics Show to introduce a new version of their G91 DVD Video and Audio player.
CES 2006: MusicGiants have announced plans for high-resolution, lossless, surround downloads to be introduced later this year as part of the MusicGians Network premium music download service. The following information is from the companyÂ’s press release:
CES 2006: McCormack Audio of Virigina and its parent company Conrad-Johnson have teamed up to introduce an upgraded version of McCormack's UDP-1 Universal Disc Player. The new edition of the UDP-1 is on display at the Alexis Park Resort location of this week's Consumer ...
CES 2006: Krell Industries is showing 2 new Super Audio CD players that will become part of their "EVO" product line this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Krell display is in the South Hall area of the Las Vegas ...
CES 2006: Groove Note Records plans an SACD by guitarist Anthony Wilson and Diana Krall this summer. The news of this big SACD project overshadowed the label's other CES activities including two new Super Audio CD releases and a new catalog.
CES 2006: For the third year in a row, Telarc is hosting a booth at the disc sales area during the Consumer Electronics Show. CES attendees can stop by and listen to the label's extensive Telarc and Heads Up Super Audio CD catalog (over 135 ...
Surround Music Awards: The list of nominees for this yearÂ’s event have been announced by CMP Entertainment Media, producers of the Surround Music Awards (SMAs), which is taking place December 15, 2005 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The fourth annual SMAs ...
CES 2006: The day before the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is known as "Press Day" where the big names in Consumer Electronics hold a series of one hour briefings for the media. This year was no exception with a series of media ...
CES 2006: With the arrival of the first week of January, it is once again time for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, better known in the industry as "CES". While the actual show doesn't officially open until Thursday (it runs from Thursday through Sunday ...
Surround Music Awards 2005 – Our first exclusive gallery of photographs of the ceremony held in Hollywood last night.
Surround Music Awards 2005 – Our second gallery of exclusive photographs from the SMA ceremony held in Hollywood last night.
At Home Entertainment 2006 some names familiar to high-resolution listeners will be either performing or sponsoring live music events. Held in Los Angles in June, attendees will have three days to demo the finest audio and home theatre components available in the world, attend ...
Rotel are releasing a new flagship DVD-Audio player capable of 1080p video scaling. The RDV-1092 boasts the very latest in video resolution standards and exceptional audio performance.
BIS Records have recently released three new SACDs featuring the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Peter Herresthal with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bach Collegium Japan.
The Szymanowski Quartet recently released an SACD on the Avie Records label featuring music by Hadyn, Bacewicz and Dvorak, and a second from young pianist Markus Groh featuring the music of Liszt.