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Agreed. It's more fun to be listening to music than comparing new audio gear. And the good news is more albums are in the pipeline from NativeDSD in the weeks and months ahead. :)

This year the NativeDSD Album of the Year winners were selected by the listeners. Sound Liaison did pick up an Album of the Year award for Amulet but not for Nola and Up Jumped The Devil. https://www.nativedsd.com/news/the-winners-albums-of-the-year-2021/

The winners of the 2021 Album of the Year awards at NativeDSD have been announced. https://www.nativedsd.com/news/the-winners-albums-of-the-year-2021/

Ray! by Carmen Gomes Inc. was released earlier today at NativeDSD.Com It's a good one! https://www.nativedsd.com/product/sl1052a-ray/

That's certainly part of the equation. Selling files converted to FLAC reduces support questions on how to do DSD to FLAC conversions. As to sales, time will tell. NativeDSD has recently added Analog Tapes, 32 bit DXD, 384k PCM, 24/96 FLAC and 24/192 FLAC to their DSD 512/256/128/64 music downloads and Audio Equipment "Gear Store". I did find the recent comment from Blue Coast Music that their biggest selling format was DSD 256, even though they carry FLAC and WAV PCM files interesting. We'll see if NativeDSD has a similar result after the new format additions.

That's right. On the Beethoven 9th, the post production was done by the team at SoundMirror in Stereo and Multichannel DSD 256.

The new Monty Alexander is also available at NativeDSD Music in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64, and DXD. It's an excellent album in DSD 256 and DSD 512. Highly recommended! (Native DSD on Facebook says it's in their Top 5). https://www.nativedsd.com/catalogue/albums/2xhdre1187-monty-alexander-love-you-madly-live-at-bubbas/

I've used the iDSD Pro and iDSD Micro BL to play "Higher" and some of the NativeDSD Stereo DSD 512 music files. Works and sounds great!

Speaking of new releases in DXD Stereo and DXD 5.1 Surround Sound, there is also the new "DXD Edition" of Patricia Barber's album "Higher" from Impex Records. Worth a listen! https://www.nativedsd.com/albums/IMP7001D-higher

Patricia Barber's album "Higher" is now available for download in DSD and DXD Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound. https://www.nativedsd.com/albums/IMP7001D-higher

I haven't tried DSD 512 Stereo files with Roon, but the ones from NativeDSD work with JRiver Media Center 26 for Windows (64 bit version) as well as HQ Player 4 Desktop here. I've also successfully played the NativeDSD Stereo DSD 512 files with Tune Browser for Windows. As for Audirvana for Windows, I've had it crash on files at lower bit rates than DSD 512. So I stopped using Audirvana here.

Hmm, I tried editing the .bat file but received this error message with Windows 10 ( was unexpected at this time.

Likely a Roon issue. I routinely play the Stereo DSD 512 files from NativeDSD Music, created with the DSD 512 "EC" modulators in HQ Player 4 Pro with no issues on the iFi iDSD Micro BL DAC using HQ Player 4 and JRiver Media Center 26. https://www.nativedsd.com/homepage/dsd512_music

HDTracks UK has now closed. Following the closure of HDTracks Germany last month. https://www.hdtracks.co.uk/

I've used the iFi Audio iDSD Micro BL with DSD files up to DSD 512 Stereo and WAV/FLAC files with great success. At $599, it's an excellent audio value.