We thought you might enjoy a look behind the scenes from the Reference Recordings team first day setting up for recording sessions with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Macky Auditorium.
If you haven’t visited our site in awhile, you may notice there have been some exciting changes! New Site-wide Security If you had our old site bookmarked, or are a frequent user, you may need to delete your old site bookmark and even clear your browser and computer cache (instructions on how to do that just in case). The reason for that is we have a brand new SSL Certificate that secures your entire experience…
HDTracks.com is ending the year with collections of their best sellers and audiophile picks for 2016 and there are quite a few RR recordings in the mix! Top 25 Classical Bestsellers #12 – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 & No. 7 – Featuring the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck Top 100 Recommended Classical Ebony Concerto – Featuring John Bruce Yeh Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ” – Featuring the Kansas City Symphony and Michael Stern Audiophile Picks…
While setting up for our latest Dallas Winds recording session this past weekend, we discussed a new “Audiophile Corner” for our blog/site. Let us know if there are things you’d like to see included in the “corner”!
From Keith’s talks at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival: Click to watch on YouTube
For the first time ever, you can get our HRx Sampler: A Classical & Jazz High Resolution Spectacular as a 176kHz/24bit DOWNLOAD via HDtracks.com! Download The Absolute Sound‘s “Best of Show” for Greatest Technological Breakthrough direct from HDtracks.com for $22.98! “… HRx albums from Reference Recordings are unlike anything I’ve ever heard. While I did have high expectations for these releases I certainly did not expect anything this close to perfection. I am absolutely blown…
New Fresh! From Reference Recordings release Doin’ What It Takes by Lloyd Jones gets a feature and quick review on AudiophileReview.com! “If blues with a funk edge is your thing, Doin’ What it Takes will have you jukin’ by the fourth measure of the opening tune, “Bend in The River.”… The recording quality is impressive, as you would expect from a Reference Recordings’ project.” — AudiophileReview.com Read the full review, rating, and more on AudiophileReview.com!…
We recently got into an interesting discussion on Facebook and Twitter about people in the audiophile world using Spotify to preview music before getting a recording in a higher audio format. So, with the release of our newest Reference Mastercuts LP we thought it would be fun to share the original recording as it appears on Spotify in case you don’t already have an HDCD or HRx copy. Take a listen and then get the…
TechnoFile.com It was quite the pleasure to find Jim Bray’s article featuring Reference Recordings on TechnoFile.com this weekend. So we thought it would be fun to share some of the great quotes from it with you here on our blog. Though, we highly suggest reading the full article as we suspect many of you will have similar feelings and ideas about audio quality as Mr. Bray. Reference Recordings Offer Quality Sound for Audiophiles:By Jim Bray…
The Absolute Sound’s new issue (207) is highlighted by the 2011 High End Audio Buyer’s Guide. In it they chose several of our albums for demo use, and we can’t help but share their reactions with you! From The Absolute Sound: RR-120 — Britten’s Orchestra“For me, the ideal demonstration disc combines both great music and great sound, be it something obscure from a major label or relatively mainstream music from an ‘audiophile’ label such as…
The reviews for our Britten’s Orchestra SACD keep coming in, and we can’t help but share them with you! From Robert E. Benson at ClassicalCDReview.com: This is Reference Recordings first multi-channel SACD and it is a brilliant success. The label’s engineering staff headed by Producer David Frost and Recording Engineer Keith O. Johnson, has done a magnificent, imaginative job in capturing the sound of this American orchestra… The performances are first-rate, showing off the entire…
Hey Audiophile Fans, here’s something from the Audiophile Blogger at CNET that we thought we would share with you: There have always been good- and bad-sounding recordings, and advances in technology haven’t really tilted the balance all that much, but they’ve changed the playing field. Musicians and bands no longer have to go into a high-priced studio to make a decent recording. If you fancy yourself as any kind of recording engineer here’s your chance…
We can’t believe we haven’t shared this with you before, but it came up again in a recent feed, so we weren’t going to miss the opportunity this time! This is a feature on our very own “Prof” Keith O. Johnson on UltraAudio.com Prof. Keith O. Johnson Gives Digital a Soul Who is KOJ? Most of us lesser mortals struggle through life, clinging tenaciously to the base of Jim Carroll’s proverbial pyramid, hoping to fashion…
The HRx is still not quite yet available (starting to look like next week, we’ll let you know as soon as it’s out), but if you just don’t want to wait for a CD to arrive, but don’t want a low-resolution Mp3 version, we have another option. On HDTracks.com we have 44.1 kHz versions available NOW! And eventually we will also have 88.2 kHz versions, but by then our HRx version will be available.
NEW HRx TITLES176.4 kHz / 24 bit MUSICComing Soon – November 17th MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS #21 AND #24Eugene Istomin / Gerard Schwarz / Seattle Symphony (HR-68) BRITTEN’S ORCHESTRA (HR-120)Order HRx Titles Securely Online! www.ReferenceRecordings.com——————————————- THE ABSOLUTE SOUND Magazine2010 High-End Audio Buyers’ GuideBEST AUDIOPHILE LABEL RECORDINGS: Copland: Third Symphony – Minnesota Orchestra / Eiji Oue (RR-93)“The best recording since Bernstein’s of a great American symphony. Gloriously impactful sonics” Janácek: Opera Excerpts – Czech State Philharmonic /…