Best Hi-Res Audiophile Downloads Top 3

My own alternative top 3

1; Andre heuvelman ''After Silence''
[urlwww.soundliaison]Sound Liaison[/url]

2; Keith Jarrett '' Somewhere''
[url]www.hdtracks{url}

3.Miles Davis ''Kind of Blue''
[url]www.hdtracks{url}

The new Carmen Gomes Inc. download; ''Little Blue'' on Sound Liaison has been in constant rotation on my media player the last weeks.
Perfect autumn music.Highly recommended.

Head engineer Frans de Rond is proving once again that his knowledge of mic placement and use of equipment is in a class of it's own. He is one of the very few engineers that is able to create a sound stage, which is intimate, yet has depth and space. A sound stage which you could say projects a visual image of the musicians. Not a ''wall of sound'' but rather something like a three dimensional Monet painting, where you can walk in and take a look around.

Gary Peacock trio from ECM ''Now This'' Highly recommended

 and, as I just mentioned in another thread, you also have e Classicals daily offer with 50% off.
http://www.eclassical.com/pages/daily-deal.html?cache=purge

If you can play DSD , Native DSD is very good; 

Enjoying the Witmer trio’’ EN Azul’’ download too,....http://www.soundliaison.com/ .......very listenable album, incredible SQ. Good review here;

Sound Liaison is a Netherlands based partnership two bass players, Frans de Rond and Peter Bjørnild. They’ve assembled some terrific artists who play great jazz and given them high definition sound. I raved about their initial recordings on the Sound Stage! Network, and have enjoyed watching their progress in listening to their appealing new albums.
Their newest program is titled En Azul and features the Witmer Trio, Cajan Witmer – piano,
Han Slinger – double bass, and Maarten Kruijswijk – drums. The trio has been together for 20 years and all the players sound very comfortable in their skins. Their emphasis is on melody with ornamentation and variation that heightens a sense of melody rather than distracting from it. And they’ve picked some terrific tunes to work with – Carioca, TheGentle Rain, Moon River, Moonglow, Rhapsody in Blue, Recado, and St. Louis Blues, to mention a few. The playing is delightfully impeccable and the recorded sound nearly so. The trio sounds like it’s playing in a real space and is nicely spread between speakers with no exaggeration. The piano sound is perfect as is the sound of the many percussion instruments that are so imaginatively employed. The bass is solid; I could use just a tiny bit more focus on the attacks. Sound Liaison recordings are only available as high quality downloads. Many download formats are available including DSD and PCM 24bit/96kHz stereo. If you’re searching for real sounding intimate jazz, give the work of these folks a try. You’ll not be disappointed and it’s so

good-natured, I’ll bet it will put a smile on your face.
http://www.radsreviews.com/?cat=19

Bobo Stenson trio; Serenity.

One of the better sounding ECM albums on pair with Keith Jarrett.

Interesting interview here about Kimber Kable;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rWLCSx0Zuw

On the computer audiophile forum this one is getting excellent ratings, recorded in DXD and available in lower formats as well. Very natural SQ.
Maybe one of the best sounding cello recordings I know. And Maya Friedman plays so very beautiful.
Maya Friedman, the Invisible Link.
http://trptk.com/

I agree with gz3827 that Blue Coast has some excellent recordings.
I believe that Blue Coast has inspired some of the younger independents coming up.

Yes very nice album indeed.
I am very impressed by the piano sound that Sound Liaison achieves in general. The Witmer Trio, which I mentioned above, is a bit easier accessible music but also with a gorgeous piano sound.

Brad Mehldau's new album, Blues and Ballads, is maybe not as well recorded as the Sound Liaison albums above , but the playing is marvelous.

I had the same thing with the Brad Mehldau album, at first it did not really register, maybe because of the sound, but then I completely fell in love with the playing.

That was also the case with this weeks special offer on the
http://www.soundliaison.com/ label; Startas Orkester, although the sound is remarkable the music is at at first ... well ...different... but at third listen I completely fell in love with the album.

The  Sound Liaison label has a winter sale going this week, all downloads 10 $/€ that is is 33% off on flac and 50% off on DSD;

Lovely good sounding 44.1 studio master from Linn, only €11 , I guess because of the format.
William Conway - cello Peter Evans - piano Recorded in St. George’s Hall, Brandon Hill, Bristol on 28, 29 & 30 May 1990
http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-debussy--martin--poulenc-cd.aspx

Great new Bach recording on the Sound Liaison label.
Very very impressive sound stage, and the ensemble plays with a drive seldom heard in the classical field. Highly recommended.
http://www.soundliaison.com/

"International elite on the West Side of Copenhagen. Enghave church has been programming concerts with the most prolific musicians specialised in Baroque music ….unsurpassable level of performance!"
Søren Schauser, music editor at the danish newspaper "Berlingske Tidende"

"Full house and baroque music played with fire on the West Side."
Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten

These musicians play straight from the heart, enthusiastic, swinging and in complete agreement with the music.....if this level can be kept on future releases I will be first in line….
...This is a conductor on mission with Bach’s music!......
Review by Bach expert Knud Svendsen in danish organ society magazine

Plenteous expertise from the ensemble but you'd have to pick out Jesenka Balic Zunic's tender playing on the Violoncello da Spalla, Jakob Bloch Jespersen in ideal repertoire for him, and the striking freshness and fluency of Anna Jobrant's soprano solos. It was free, and full.
Andrew Mellor, reviewer for Gramophone magazine

the sound and the playing reminds me  a bit of the Dunedin consort recordings from Linn. Highly recommended as well. http://www.linnrecords.com/Index.aspx

Gregory Porter. Any album. They are all very well recorded;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlyb7vruV0

Is this available on DVD somewhere?: https://wn.com/roach_goldings_piltch_bellerose_aymanns_live_at_blue_whale

The Carmen Gomes Sings the blues album is fabulous, best download of the year so far if you ask me.
There is only a week left of the introduction offer at the Sound Liaison site;

First we would like to express our most sincere gratitude and appreciation for the very positive response we received after the release of Carmen Gomes Sings The Blues.
This album is our first DXD recording!
The album was used by Schnerzinger, Nagra and Zellaton at the Munich High End Show 2017 to demonstrate their new products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPBdM-5Spc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxW-WlOvBQ

But all good things comes to an end, the saying goes, there is only 1 week left of the special introduction offer of this beautiful album.

A friend of mine was there and heard the tape in the Nagra room.
He found it very impressive. Says the DSD 256 digital download has the same kind of warmth.

The Sound Liaison albums are on sale this month.
You have to fill in the coupon code ''indian summer'' to get a 33% reduction.

Calloways suggestion; https://www.primephonic.com/http://
has several note worthy albums.
Thanks!

The new DXD downloads from Sound Liaison,https://www.soundliaison.com/ are stunning.
’’Carmen Gomes Sings the Blues’’ is destined to become a classic.
Very impressive SQ and sound stage.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a+fool+for+you+carmen+gomes[/video]

I think the Doug MacLeod download  will be exactly the same on hd tracks as on reference. No difference.

The 2 latest albums are on special offer at the moment.
Superb DXD recordings available in DSD and Flac and of course in DXD.
Highly recommended;

Here is a very good 2L recording
highly recommended;
https://shop.klicktrack.com/image/93C77A2C1D53D9DF29949712D84C6AFF-39E078111BFF-00.jpg/large?type=re...

You gotta be kiddin' ''B-grade material'', well it's a free world with free speech, but..... hey... jaybe what is in your opinion an A grade artist with A grade material?

Hi Milan60
this should work http://www.2l.no/

The Sound Liaison label has a sale on this week. All albums 20% off with the coupon code; RAINBOWS

Hi   jaybe what is in your opinion an A grade artist with A grade material?

Great tribute album to Joni Mitchell and well recorded too!

http://www.hdtracks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Herbie+Hancock+-+River+-+The+Joni+Lettershttp://

Check this!
https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/reviews/sound-liaison-one-mic-recording-r957/

Get Carmen Gomes’ new one mic recording.
unbelievable. Even on you tube it sounds good;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DypP5GnMakQ

Fine Chesky album here;https://www.hdtracks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=wycliffe+gordonhttp://

Binaural recording.

The new One Microphone recording with
Reinier Voet&Pigalle44 https://www.soundliaison.com/index.php/515-reinier-voet-ballade-pour-la-nuithttp://
 has received a five star review in Audiophile Style;
"These guys and this recording just rocks. Pace, rhythm, tone and soundstage are just off the charts. The precise placement of all four of the musicians perfectly matches the photos of the sessions. The balance of all four instruments is darn near perfect. As you can no doubt tell, I am a huge fan of this recording. It is one of the best in terms of recording quality I have ever heard."

Highly recommended indeed.

And they just released one more. This time with superb low end and perfect sound stage. These ''one mic recordings'' are superior to any other audiophile recordings I have ever heard.
https://www.soundliaison.com/index.php/577-braskiri-live-at-mco

[img]https://www.soundliaison.com/images/Braskiri300shadow.jpg[/img]

Interesting about the original one point stereo recordings;
https://www.stereophile.com/content/fine-art-mercury-living-presence-recordings

Good review.
I only want to ad that the Sound Liaison recordings sound beautiful as well as realistic. 

fine jazz trio on Native DSD with flugel horn specialist Angelo Verplugen. 20% of this week. Well recorded too.https://www.nativedsd.com/dsd-reviews/jazz-flugelhorn-recorded-by-the-nativedsd-team/

highly recommended!

https://www.nativedsd.com/product/imp7002dxd-clique/

The whole Sound Liaison collection is now available in 24/96 FLAC on BandCamp; link; https://soundliaison.bandcamp.com/http://

The https://soundliaison.bandcamp.com/album/the-visual-sound-the-sound-liaison-dxd-music-sampler-24bit-192khz-version
(or in 352)
https://www.soundliaison.com/index.php/536-sound-liaison-dxd-music-sampler
had a great review;

....have managed to strike a balance between intimacy of the performance and the soundstage in the big way, better than numerous other albums on which the sound engineers have tried the same! Really well done. This is a superb recording in every respect: tonal balance, timing, spatial delineation etc. And it’s a pleasure to listen to!

No Spotify, no Tidal

Note that the albums by the Sound Liaision are not available on streaming services such as Spotify and Tidal. Why? Here’s the explanation: “Because the audio quality on these streaming sites is simply not good enough, and the music of the Sound Liaison does not fit the spotify mould where the chorus of a song tends to start within 15-30 seconds. And last but not least, we want to pay our artists their fair share of the profits being made.”

excellent

Eagles;https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/hotel-california-eagles/0603497922888

it is well recorded. Maybe less ''pure'' compared to the Sound Liaison but it is a classic and probably the best live recording of a rock band.

Native DSD's Album of the week is a good place to start

This is a superb recording all around and is one that I can recommend for all jazz fans. Superb musicianship and just fantastic sound.