DSD on-line shops in Europe

Posted by: phosphocreatine on 01 July 2015

After upgrading my NDX to firmware 4.3 I'm keen to try more intensly the DSD capabilities of this machine and therefore I'm trying to buy DSD formatted music.

 

Unfortunately it seems that apart from "NativeDSDmusic" and "2L" (which have a very limited catalogue) there are no other possibilities in Europe to buy DSD files. The US based "acoustic sounds" shop, which has a good variety of DSD formatted music, doesn't permit to buy files if you connect from outside the US.

Posted on: 01 July 2015 by Simon-in-Suffolk

I suspect the catalogues are largely limited because genuine DSD media is very much the minority. The two European sources you cite to have good authenticity statements on providing genuine DSD media.. That is recorded and mastered in DSD, and not converted from PCM. I have purchased some NativeDSD l media and it is rather rewarding. It is of specific DSD recordings of the LSO.

Simon

 

Posted on: 01 July 2015 by Andrew Everard
Originally Posted by phosphocreatine:

After upgrading my NDX to firmware 4.3 I'm keen to try more intensly the DSD capabilities of this machine and therefore I'm trying to buy DSD formatted music.

 

Unfortunately it seems that apart from "NativeDSDmusic" and "2L" (which have a very limited catalogue) there are no other possibilities in Europe to buy DSD files. The US based "acoustic sounds" shop, which has a good variety of DSD formatted music, doesn't permit to buy files if you connect from outside the US.

Try some of these, many of which have free sample downloads:

 

http://www.bluecoastrecords.com/

http://downloadsnow.net/

http://shop.dsdfile.com/

http://www.opus3records.com/

http://www.channelclassics.com/

http://www.pentatonemusic.com

Posted on: 01 July 2015 by Mike-B

Best DSD is native DSD - DSD all the way from studio to download

The best place I've found to search for DSD - it has all albums, artists, orchestras, composers -  listed by availability from all the DSD (& PCM) vendors www store(s) is 

 http://www.findhdmusic.com/alb...ch/?q=&fmt_dsd=1

 

Compare prices tho' the same album can be quite variable from different vendors & the excellent unique artists & albums from Blue Coast are expensive.