The year 2020 is coming to an end and with it the anniversary year of Channel Classics. This blog is therefore the last in my “Favorites” series. If favorite means that you listen to it often, then one album should certainly not be missing from my list: Philip Glass, Metamorphosis & The Hours by harpistread more >
Sunday November 29th Channel Classics celebrated its official 30th anniversary with a great concert by a selection of their star artists in the Frits Philips hall in Eindhoven. It came as a wonderful surprise that the long-planned concert could take place at all. The Covid-19 disaster had a firm grip on this festive event, butread more >
In my ‘Favorites’ blog of last month I wrote about my Sonology studies. Many of my hardcore electronic music teachers did not care much for ‘romantic’ 19th century music, but without exception they admired Johann Sebastian Bach. And rightly so, of course. Bach is an immeasurably large musical monument. He has been in my liferead more >
In this “Favorites” blog I pick up the thread of my personal history. After three years of electronics studies and discovering high-end audio through the renowned magazine Audio & Techniek (see this video interview with Jaap Veenstra) I went to study at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. I followed courses Music Registration and Sonologyread more >
Classical music has always been part of my life. My mother played piano and my father had various sizes of recorders. In my teenage years I also played piano and studied faithfully, although in hindsight my motivation would have been greater had I chosen an ensemble instrument. Although I mainly played classical pieces, the rawread more >
Today Thursday May 21st, in stunningly beautiful weather, we would be celebrating 30 years of Channel Classics with a vibrant garden party at Jared Sacks’ gorgeous home at the river Waal in the Netherlands. As a result of COVID-19, this celebration with music performed by Channel Artists surrounded by industry contacts and friends has obviouslyread more >
High res download shop Native DSD receives many questions about the oversample rate of DSD: 64fs, 128fs, 256 fs or even higher. Bigger numbers always seem better, but Native DSD claims that in the end the most important thing is not the oversampling rate but the quality of the recording converter in the audio band.read more >
In their May/June issue, Positive Feedback features a review of three new SACD’s from Channel Classics: Beethoven, Schubert and Stravinsky, all with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Teresa Goodwin is clearly touched by the sound our AD1 made possible: “Sonically all three Channel Classics SACDs are amazingly realistic, with plenty of excitement, beautifulread more >
At SA-CD.net a new SACD from Channel Classics was discussed. Tom Caulfield, project manager for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote: “I have most of the Channel Amsterdam Sinfonietta SACDs, and appreciate them not only for their musicianship, but for how they sound. They all have a richness, level of realism, and sonic detail that isread more >
When aiming for the highest possible performance, testing becomes a problem in itself. Even the best available test gear will only approach the performance of the device under test. In addition, commercially available test equipment is designed to work in a very wide range of situations and compromises must be necessarily made. To get aroundread more >
DSD, short for “Direct Stream Digital”, is the name that was given to ‘PCM audio with just one bit’, as Peter Eastty of Sony Oxford once put it. The format is native to some AD and DA converters, such as the Grimm Audio AD1. The one bit signal has some unconventional features that lead toread more >
