I’ll be there in a week and half! Am going to Ohio for a chamber music workshop (performing the amazingly beautiful Schubert string quintet with two cellos!) then visiting our son who’s at Tanglewood for the summer.
Then drive down the Hudson River to Delaware and staying at a friend’s house for a week. Then back to Santa Fe.
The Schubert is delicious.
What is your son studying there? What a wonderful environment for a summer’s stay.
He’s one of the 15 or so violinists from around the world chosen to be a Tanglewood Fellow. He plays with the Tanglewood Institute orchestra (composed of professional and rising professional musicians) conducted by the BSO conductor Andris Nilssons and gets coached by the resident BSO faculty. The orchestra does maybe 6-8 performances plus chamber group performances.
It’s held every summer and is a huge deal if you get in. Best: all expenses paid if you get in! So no paycheck needed from mom and dad. (Although we pay for his apartment rent in NYC, which is an arm and a leg.)
Wow! Congratulations to your talented son. How old is he?
AND congratulations to your son’s parents for the apparently good job done.
Thank you. Yeah he’s in the middle of audition, audition, audition. He was one of six finalists a month ago at the Chicago Symphony fellowship program, but someone else got it. They flew him in, wined and dined him, so at least that was good. He was a bit disappointed but that’s the musician’s life.
Well he just heard today that an informal audition with the New World Symphony went so well that they offered him a job on the spot! (In case you didn’t know) it was started and is conducted largely by Michael Tilson Thomas. So he’ll be in Miami in the fall playing in a fancy Frank Gehry-designed concert hall.
Best yet, no longer on our payroll!
Congrats all around!
Wow, I’m getting a little moist just thinking of when my son was officially off my payroll.
Anyone knows the product detail of the vinyl version? How many lp and the speed? Thanks.
4 LP 33 1/3 180 gram vinyl, individually serialized.
I just finished playing the first record of my recently delivered vinyl set of Zuill Bailey’s Bach Cello Suites. Oh my! As superb as the SACD format is of this performance, the vinyl set is so much more enjoyable. Generally, Bailley’s cello seems more present and full-bodied. Also, I can more fully appreciate subtleties of his performance, especially the restraint he exercises in the second track (the Allemande), compared to the Prelude of Suite No. 1. The surfaces are eerily quiet, which I presume is due in part to the DSD recording interface, but also to the quality of the pressing. Thank you, Octave, for issuing this beautiful vinyl set. It provides well-deserved justice to Bailley’s incomparable performance. Highly recommended!
I’m downloading Vol. 1 of this as I listen to the Don Grusin album in DSD64 for the first time. I had downloaded the Grusin just to see what it was like, but didn’t have a music server that handled DSD. I just repurposed an older Mac mini with Adirvana and loaded up the Grusin playing thru my DS dac… Wow, that’s really a piano! I’ll be looking for more of this kind of sound. Thanks to everybody at PS Audio for putting so much care into the product.
Thanks! Yes, the closer you can get to the source and how we recorded those pieces the happier you’ll be. Try the DSD128 when you can! That file should be available by Friday.
Agree - this was a welcome addition. I’m thoroughly enjoying this album.
Right now I’m using USB from the Mac into DS. It says DSD64 is my highest rate with USB. Is a 128 file downsampled over USB?
Yeah, you have to go through the I2S input for anything higher. I use the Matrix as a go between. This allows for USB to send as high as DSD256 over USB and then connects to the I2S input.
Thanks for the info. I’ll stick with 64 for now. It’s pretty sweet.
One of us needs to add this LP to discogs. I’ve been lazy and not had a chance to do it yet - I’ll shoot for this weekend if all goes well.
Follow up - I’ve added the Vinyl to discogs. Feel free to edit/improve if I’ve missed anything.
I’m pleased to report the Matrix Audio X-SPDIF works just as advertised and was a snap to install. It so happened our Dallas/Fort Worth audiophile group met shortly after this exchange and our host used the Matrix in his fine system, which coincidentally included the DS dac and also a Power Plant, I forget which but it was BIG! Anyway, I bought the Matrix at Apos online. I also added an iFi 9v SWPS from Music Direct to bypass the built-in USB power and used an Audioquest Cinnamon HDMI cable to connect to my DS dac. So now I’m running everything off my aging Mac Mini and a happy camper. I tested positive for Covid last week so I’ve had lots of time to spend listening.