The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Sheriff - Pure DSD
The Modern Jazz Quartet's impact extends beyond their contributions to jazz music; they helped shape the broader landscape of musical collaboration, artistic innovation, and cultural exchange in the 20th century.
Artist(s): Bass – Percy Heath
Drums – Connie Kay
Piano – John Lewis
Vibraphone [Vibraharp] – Milt Jackson
Recording Info: Recorded by Engineers: – Phil Iehle & Tom Dowd in New York City, May 16, 1963
Sourced from a 15ips 2-track tape
Analog: Transferred using a modified Studer 810 tape deck feeding a Merrill Tape Preamp
Digital: Merging Hapi Analog to Digital Converter clocked by an Antelope Audio 10MX Atomic Clock
Power Conditioning: Shunyata Research Everest 8000 for analog components
All components grounded to Shunyata ALTAIRA Hubs
Please Note: This release was mastered in DSD with no PCM. (Pure DSD)
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Quality is astonishing in DSD 265
The reviewer Rushton is right: Listen to the track in standard mode (which is already high quality) and than in DSD 265. It's like night and day. I wonder why DSD doen't get more attention. Love this album.


A joyful listening experience!
This tape transfer in Pure DSD256 is phenomenal—a joyful listening experience! Musically, this album may not be the best of the albums from The Modern Jazz Quartet, but with a group of this caliber, even the next step down is better than virtually all other jazz groups. For a real musical treat, listen the Track 1, "The Sheriff" using HDTT's 30-second preview tracks. The music swings. And while it sounds good in the preview, is sounds vastly better in the Pure DSD256 download.
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