Wow. This is awesome. What would be cool is a dsd download as well as a physical sacd - but I’ll take the dsd download. Gotta get Ted working on that DSD256. 
Maybe someone asked this already but will Octave Records be releasing LPs?
(I don’t own a turntable, just curious)
I also wonder if Octave Records releases will be available on all the major streaming services?
– Amazon, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play Music, Qobuz, Tidal, and others –
We do plan, at some point, to offer releases in LP form as well as downloads, CD and DSD datadiscs.
We will not put the label’s music on streaming services as it is nice but does not financially reward the musicians.
Yeah, the streaming model seems to be set up to make money for the platforms and definitely not for the artists.
Right, which defeats one of our major goals.
Victor Wooten is huge I am a lover of Jazz and one of my favorite disks is SMV (Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, & Victor Wooten). Through my DS Sr. that album can be accurately described as a bass extravaganza! The way those guys use their respective talents to make music, when one would just expect a thump fest is nothing short of amazing. Go Paul!
We finally got the 600 pound Studer mixing console up the two flights of stairs and into the control room where it will live. Below the console are three Power Plants to feed pure power to the console, the amps for the ATC speakers, and all the DirectStream DACs we’ll use to decode the Sonoma DSD system into this analog board.
Getting closer by the day.
An Interesting article about how artists are finding it harder to make a living as musicians: https://www.rootsmusic.ca/2019/03/14/a-brief-history-of-why-artists-are-no-longer-making-a-living-making-music/?fbclid=IwAR1sdIUl3XqRK2tLHFLzygMeZokK_wxFUbucp5cOojZGpiX5EbdxqU0SfXQ
You have got to get Gus a better chair.
Have fun!
It’s looking amazing. How many Directstream Dac are need for this system setup?
Did you have to manually carry it up the stairs? I see lots of built-in carrying handles, but 600 lb is a lot for one person at each end. I’m sure you had a better method, but just the same my back hurts for you! Another trip to PS Audio is getting more and more necessary!
We hired a moving company and they manually hauled that bad boy up the stairs.
I just posted a video on YouTube of the experience you can watch here:
Just imagine the thousands of cigarettes smoked at that console.
And the drinks and dope spilled into it. Most of us could retire on the cost of it, even in prior-decade dollars/pounds.
The hygienic concerns alone.
I heard or read that drugs were actually built into the budget for recording a new album in the 1970’s but that’s likely urban myth.
It wasn’t a myth for The Blues Brothers movie. Pretty well documented. I’m sure it happened a lot with album budgets!
You can see his work here
I’ve seen that before but it doesn’t mention his work (DSD file creation from SACD cutting masters) on one of the biggest selling albums of all time (and one of my personal favs).