Beethoven: Sonata in G Major

[amirm]

What say you Bruce on this remaster? http://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/1194

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176.4 kHz / 24-bit & 88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM and 2.8224 MHz / 1-bit DSD - Wilson Audiophile Recordings Studio Masters

Produced by: Wilson Audiophile Recordings, LLC
Original recording engineer: David A. Wilson
Project manager: Daryl C. Wilson

Analogue to high definition digital transfer: Bruce Brown, Puget Sound Studios
Transfer editing: Bruce Brown, Puget Sound Studios
Sonic evaluation: David A. Wilson, Sheryl Lee Wilson, Daryl C. Wilson

Speakers: Wilson Audio Alexandria XLF, two Thor’s Hammers
Electronics: Apple Mac Mini, Amarra & Audirvana Plus, Weiss INT202, Audio Research DAC 8, Audio Research 40th Anniversary preamp, VTL Siegfried and / or D' Agostino Momentum amplifiers
Cables: Audioquest Firewire, Transparent Opus

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What was the original master the DSD?

 

[Kees de Visser]

More info in the liner notes:

Puget Sound Studios received the tapes from Wilson Audiophile Recordings...
Each transfer was executed on a Studer A-80 RC Mk II ...
...an EMM Labs ADC-8 Mk IV ... was chosen by Dave and Daryl Wilson for the transfers into a Sonoma DSD workstation for capture and editing...
All DSD files were transferred into a Merging Technologies Pyramix DSD/DXD Masscore workstation for sample rate conversion, format conversion, and meta-data tagging.

 

[Bruce B]

What say you Bruce on this remaster?
176.4 kHz / 24-bit & 88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM and 2.8224 MHz / 1-bit DSD - Wilson Audiophile Recordings Studio Masters

Produced by: Wilson Audiophile Recordings, LLC
Original recording engineer: David A. Wilson
Project manager: Daryl C. Wilson

Analogue to high definition digital transfer: Bruce Brown, Puget Sound Studios
Transfer editing: Bruce Brown, Puget Sound Studios
Sonic evaluation: David A. Wilson, Sheryl Lee Wilson, Daryl C. Wilson

Speakers: Wilson Audio Alexandria XLF, two Thor’s Hammers
Electronics: Apple Mac Mini, Amarra & Audirvana Plus, Weiss INT202, Audio Research DAC 8, Audio Research 40th Anniversary preamp, VTL Siegfried and / or D' Agostino Momentum amplifiers
Cables: Audioquest Firewire, Transparent Opus

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What was the original master the DSD?

We received the original masters that Dave had recorded back in the 70's and 80's. The transfers were done here in the studio on our machines. See the liner notes above for further explanation.
Was a great project to work with!

 

[amirm]

Thanks Bruce. How would you rate the final fidelity? Worth a purchase?

 

[Bruce B]

Thanks Bruce. How would you rate the final fidelity? Worth a purchase?

Definitely

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Definitely

I've had the CD forever; and it is a fine sounding CD. as are all the Wilson recordings.

 

[amirm]

Thanks guys. Will go ahead and buy it.

 

[LL21]

Like the music...love the system!

 

[bmoura]

It's a good one as the review suggests.
https://wilsonaudio.nativedsd.com/albums/beethoven-violin-sonata-op-96-enescu-violin-sonata-op-25

 

[jfrech]

I bought the dsd download. I like it...worth the $$'s !