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Highly acclaimed Yarlung Records has recently transferred twenty of their original tapes to 256fs DSD.  The first four - sponsored by exaSound - are now available on https://yarlungrecords.nativedsd.com.

 

The "exaSound Quartet" includes Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet (here is Bill Milkowski’s review in The Absolute Sound), Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (here is Jim Svejda’s review for Fanfare and KUSC-FM), Suryodaya and the percussion album Smoke & Mirrors: Vanish. All releases are mastered by Steve Hoffman and recorded by Bob Attiyeh.  The DSD files, in 256, 128 and 64 fs are direct transfers from the SonoruS Series of analog tapes.

 

 

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The People... The PFO DSD Panel... DSD field trip to The Super Audio Center... Preview of the upcoming release of Roger Waters' great album, Amused to Death…done in DSD surround.... First taste of what high-definition video/movies would be like if we had DSD for the audio, instead of some flavor of PCM-based Dolby S... Two music videos of Elephant Revival.

Read David W. Robinson's RMAF 2014 show report

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The Audio Beat calls the exaSound Room 505 at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014 the "Best of Show" experience: Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014 • Best of Show • exaSound, Magnepan, Bryston

By Dennis Davis, Roy Gregory and Marc Mickelson

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exaSound Audio Design is proud to receive for a second year in a row the Audio Oasis! Award at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014.

 

 

 

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The Three Musketeers See the RMAF 2014

by Lynn Olson 

 

And a surprise. My favorite room at the show, exaSound, did not have high-efficiency speakers, tube amps, a phonograph, or even a linestage. I'll come right out and say it; this was the best digital sound I've ever heard, and at times a dead ringer for first (not second) generation analog mastertape. The system couldn't have been much simpler:

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Stereophile, one of the most prestigious printed magazines for audiophiles has published the 2014 Fall Edition Recommended Components List.  The exaSound e28 DAC is listed as an A+ product:

 

Stereophile 2014 Recommended Components Fall Edition:

e28 DAC: Class A+ Digital Processor

e28 DAC: Class A Surround-Sound Component

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AudioStream.com gave their highest "Greatest Bits" Class A award to the e22 DAC.   You can follow this link to read the full review by Steven Plaskin.

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"exaSound offered an interesting demo consisting of a comparison between stereo and multichannel music using five Magnepan 1.7 speakers driven by a Bryston 9B-SST-2 amp. I found the surround versions to simply sound more natural and not at all gimmicky which you might expect from multichannel music"

Michael Lavorgna •  audiostream.com

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