Singer and Acoustic Guitarist David Elias has added Multichannel DSD Downloads on his web site at http://davidelias.com/home.html They are available for purchase and download starting this afternoon.
Long time SACD fans will remember Elias as an independent acoustic musician based on the SF Bay Area Coast near Half Moon Bay (he's now based in Hawaii) who issued two of the first direct to DSD albums - recorded live to the Sony Sonoma DSD Workstation and EMM Labs Meitner DSD Converters.
Since that time, the first of these Hybrid Surround/Stereo SACDs, The Window, has gone out of print. Elias posted the Stereo DSD files of The Window in 2009 and they remain available for purchase.
Today, Elias has posted the Multichannel DSD files from The Window on his web site and they are available as a set of 12 for $24.95.
His second Hybrid Surround/Stereo SACD, Crossing, only has a limited number of SACD copies left. The final SACD copies are available via the CD Baby web site at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elias7 for $39.95.
This afternoon, Elias posted the Multichannel DSD files from Crossing on the web site as well. This Multichannel DSD download is also offered as 12 songs for $24.95.
If you visit the David Elias web site or the CD Baby web site (links above) you can take a listen to samples from the albums and decide if this music is your cup of tea. If it is, I'd strongly suggest getting these
Multichannel DSD files. They are simply excellent!
For reference, here are my write ups of these two SACDs when they were first issued - via the High Fidelity Review web site archive:
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/new-david-elias-album-crossing-arrives-in-sacd-surround-sound.html
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/david-elias-turns-to-sacd-for-latest-album.html
Long time SACD fans will remember Elias as an independent acoustic musician based on the SF Bay Area Coast near Half Moon Bay (he's now based in Hawaii) who issued two of the first direct to DSD albums - recorded live to the Sony Sonoma DSD Workstation and EMM Labs Meitner DSD Converters.
Since that time, the first of these Hybrid Surround/Stereo SACDs, The Window, has gone out of print. Elias posted the Stereo DSD files of The Window in 2009 and they remain available for purchase.
Today, Elias has posted the Multichannel DSD files from The Window on his web site and they are available as a set of 12 for $24.95.
His second Hybrid Surround/Stereo SACD, Crossing, only has a limited number of SACD copies left. The final SACD copies are available via the CD Baby web site at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elias7 for $39.95.
This afternoon, Elias posted the Multichannel DSD files from Crossing on the web site as well. This Multichannel DSD download is also offered as 12 songs for $24.95.
If you visit the David Elias web site or the CD Baby web site (links above) you can take a listen to samples from the albums and decide if this music is your cup of tea. If it is, I'd strongly suggest getting these
Multichannel DSD files. They are simply excellent!
For reference, here are my write ups of these two SACDs when they were first issued - via the High Fidelity Review web site archive:
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/new-david-elias-album-crossing-arrives-in-sacd-surround-sound.html
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/david-elias-turns-to-sacd-for-latest-album.html