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Resolving for Resolution by Andreas Koch

As a little boy I thought it would be fun to earn some candy money as a target flag waver at the local gun shooting range. The targets were mounted on suspended frames that could be pulled down by the flag waver into a protected bunker right below them. After inspecting the location of the [...]

New Playback Designs MPD-5 Software Update – #24

Attention All MPD-5 DSD DAC Owners We have posted a new version of our firmware. Please update your MPD-5 by downloading the newest firmware from our “Support”/Product Updates” page. It is password protected and you will need to contact your dealer for access and support.

New Playback Designs MPS-5 Software Update – #24

Attention All MPS-5 SACD / CD Player Owners We have posted a new version of our firmware. Please update your MPS-5 by downloading the newest firmware from our “Support”/Product Updates” page. It is password protected and you will need to contact your dealer for access and support.

New Playback Designs MPD-5 Software Update

Positive Feedback Lifetime Award given to Andreas Koch

Positive Feedback Magazine recently awarded Playback Designs' Andreas Koch its "Lifetime Award, 2012". This award is not given every year and the last recipient was Gordon Holt back in 2005. We are honored that Andreas is getting the recognition we feel he deserves.

New Playback Designs MPS-5 Software Update

Attention All MPS-5 SACD / CD Player Owners We have posted a new version of our software. Please update your MPS-5 by downloading the newest firmware from our “Support”/Product Updates” page. It is password protected and you will need to contact your dealer for access and support.

Blue Coast Records – Super Resolution Audio Update

We are on the cusp of a digital audio revolution to DSD that requires an ecosystem change and is being led by music lovers.

DSD Audio — Join the Cutting Edge (CAS 2012 – Friday 8/3/2012)

DSD Audio -- Join the Cutting Edge A panel discussion Friday 2pm-3:30pm Meet the Artists, Engineers and Manufacturers pioneering DSD music delivery to fans around the world

T.H.E. Show – Newport Beach 2012

Please come and visit us June 1, 2 & 3 in Newport Beach, California at the Hilton Hotel. We will be exhibiting in Room 418

DSD Downloads – Blue Coast Records

I assume, by now, most of you are familiar with Blue Coast Records. They were one of the first labels to offer DSD downloads and have a free DSD download of the month club. Blue Coast Records sets a new standard in audio excellence. The award-winning Blue Coast Collection is recognized by audiophiles and casual listeners for [...]

DSD-Guide.com

DSD-Guide.com is an excellent new website which focuses on all things DSD. You will find information pertaining to DSD music, information, equipment, news and answers.

DSD Downloads – Channel Classics Records

NEWS RELEASE 2/20/12 Channel Classics Records of Holland is proud to announce the next step in hi res downloading by including our DSD master files onto our web site at www.channelclassics.com. For a year we have been offering hi res downsampled pcm formats but felt with the advancement of DACs capable of reproducing our DFF files, [...]

New DSD Download Site – Cybele Records (German)

Düsseldorf, den 15. Februar 2012 Ihnen wird sicherlich aufgefallen sein, dass sich seit geraumer Zeit scheinbar nicht viel bewegt hat auf unserer Website. Dies ist, wie Sie aus eigener Erfahrung wissen, vollkommen untypisch für uns und hatte gute Gründe: Wir haben im Laufe des letzten Jahres an einem grundlegend neuen Web-Konzept gearbeitet, das wir Ihnen [...]

New DSD Download Site – Cybele Records

Düsseldorf, 15 February 2012 You will have noticed that for some time nothing seemingly has moved on our website. This is, as you know from personal experience, completely unusual for us and had good reasons: Over the last year, we were working on a fundamentally new web concept that we want to present to you [...]

USB Link for DSD Audio via PCM Frames – Version 1

The USB Audio specification 2.0 defines multiple formats for audio of which standard PCM is only one. A general “raw data” format was also defined that can be used for any kind of data including audio, but unfortunately, no specific format was defined for DSD and with the ongoing proliferation of USB converters in the [...]

New Playback Designs 5 Series Update Utility

Attention All 5 Series Owners We have posted a new version of our update utility that has been fully test with Windows 7 Service Pack 1. If you have not updated your 5 Series product in the past year, please download the newest firmware from our “Support”/Product Updates” page. It is password protected and you [...]

Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

Fedelta del suono – Interview with Andreas Koch (In Italian)

If you read Italian, here is a very interesting interview in the great Italian audiophile magazine, Fedelta del suono with Andreas Koch: Fedelta del suono Interview with Andreas Koch

Neil Young building digital music device for downloading

By Lucas Shaw | Reuters – Tue, Jan 31, 2012 New York, Jan 31 (TheWrap.com) - Neil Young said Tuesday that he is picking up where Steve Jobs left off, working on a device that can offer digital music without sacrificing quality as iTunes,Amazon and others have done. “Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, but when he went home he listened to vinyl,” Young [...]

Great DSD Download Site – music.e-onkyo.com

Today we received a wonderful email from Taku Kurosawa of ONKYO ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, which is subsidiary company of ONKYO Corportaion. Mr. Kurosawa read Andreas Koch’s article, “DSD – The New Addiction” in Positive-Feedback Online and thought it was a good idea to let us know that they are offering DSD file downloads in Japan. They have been providing this service [...]

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