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Eliminating Digital Jitter and Latency:
Network stability becomes critical once you move beyond compressed streaming and into high-resolution audio (24-bit/88.2kHz, 96kHz, 192kHz). Even tiny timing inconsistencies in packet delivery can blur micro-dynamics, soften transient attacks, and collapse the precision of the stereo image — issues that a transparent system will ruthlessly reveal.
Streaming convenience vs. local playback fidelity
While modern services and NAS systems have improved dramatically, they still introduce variables: router congestion, Wi-Fi interference, buffer management, and protocol overhead. Local playback sidesteps these entirely.
Practical recommendations for maximum stability:
Wired Ethernet is non-negotiable for any network audio. Use Cat6 or better cabling and avoid cheap switches that introduce their own jitter or packet errors.
Dedicated local storage — Play directly from a high-quality internal NVMe SSD or NAS with SSD HDD. This removes the network layer completely for critical listening.
Software-side mitigations:
Large buffer sizes in your SW player
Integer-mode or bit-perfect output.
Async USB or network-attached DACs with strong reclocking.
Power and grounding matter here too — clean power to your router/switch/NAS can reduce electrical noise that indirectly affects timing.
The result? High-bandwidth FLAC files arrive with sample-accurate timing, preserving the full chain of transparency to your listening position.
A download is the best decision you can make. So, purchase your music for the best listing experience.
Review: Nate Smith, Kiefer, CARRTOONS, Kenny Beats – FATHERS
Jazz, seasoned and spiced. That’s one way to describe *FATHERS*, the debut album by the collective of the same name led by producer Kenny Bates, featuring Kiefer on keyboards, Carrtoons on bass, and Nate Smith on drums. Complemented by saxophonist Nicole McCabe, guitarist Paul Castelluzzo, singer Genevieve Artadi, and Yasmeen Al-Mazedi with her string arrangements, the trio-quartet blends jazz with hip-hop, funk, soul, and electronic influences—or perhaps just a touch of them? ...
Enjoy! Listening recommended ****
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Quality control is essential in a world of mass-market content distribution. We analyze, verify and guarantee 100% native sampling rate in 24bit resolution since the beginning 2011.
The HRA-Streaming Distinction: Our "Master Curator" philosophy rejects the industry's obsession with quantity. A 100-million-track library is a liability if it's riddled with poorly managed metadata or upsampled content. We provide a curated selection where every file is manually tested and verified by audio engineers. This level of quality control is available through our HRA-Streaming 6-month and 12-month subscription plans. For those who want to own their music while enjoying the flexibility of the cloud, our HRA-Streaming + Downloads 12-month bundle provides the ultimate hybrid solution. It's a professional-grade toolkit for the serious collector who refuses to compromise on source origin.
Mass-market high resolution music streaming services often prioritize lifestyle branding and expansive, unverified catalogs. We take a different approach. Our service functions as a technical sanctuary, built on the pillars of integrity, verification, and purity. We don't just host files; we curate them. Every track in our library undergoes a rigorous manual selection process by audio engineers to ensure it meets the studio master benchmark. This clinical level of quality control eliminates the upsampled "fake" files that plague the consumer market, providing you with a reliable, bit-perfect signal every time you press play.
Review: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck - Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World" - Simon: Four Black American Dances
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Manfred Heneck, has put together an interesting program on its latest album: Antonín Dvořák’s “Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’” and Carlos Simon’s “Four Black American Dances.” European-style Romanticism meets African-American-influenced classical composition. An adventure? ...
Landmark Recording: Highly recommended *****
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Review: Steve Swallow – Winter Songs
There’s a certain offbeat humor to releasing an album titled "Winter Songs" just after the summer solstice. At least in the Northern Hemisphere, where bassist Steve Swallow calls home. But that’s not all—the tracks are simply numbered: One, Two, Three,… all the way to Nine. Although…
Beautifully performed and recorded. Highly recommended *****
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Review: Your Brother’s Keeper & Gary Bartz – Where Rivers Meet
Where Rivers Meet, the debut album by the young London jazz ensemble Your Brother’s Keeper, has an atmospheric and open sound. They are supported on this album by the seasoned saxophonist Gary Bartz. The blend is captivating. ...
A joyful and top listening album. Well done! ENJOY!
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Review: Tristan Mélia – The Bird in My Heart
A gentle spirit dwells in the musical heart of Tristan Mélia. His fourth solo album, comprising eight tracks, offers a good 48 minutes of relaxing piano music – calm, inviting, and consisting mainly of his own compositions, though the Frenchman has also included three standards. ...
Highly recommended *****
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Review: Freya Ridings – Mother of Pearls
On to the next round: British singer Freya Ridings has released her third album, Mother of Pearls, nine years after her debut. Given the usual pace of the music industry, this isn’t a particularly high output, so one might expect something special. ...
Enjoy!
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Native HIGHRESAUDIO HRA-Streaming iOS App for iPhone and iPad.
HIGHRESAUDIO, German based the leading multi-genre music download and streaming service for the conscious listener, music-lover and Hi-Fi enthusiast, that cherish in obtaining the best sounding music source in 24bit, is releasing today a native Apple iOS App for iPhone and iPad for their high-resolution music-streaming subscription service.
HIGHRESAUDIO was established in 2010 and has licensing distribution agreements with all major record companies, independent labels / artists and aggregators.
The HIGHRESAUDIO Streaming iOS App is free of charge with any signed subscription model and is available from Apple's App Store. Links and description for the App you'll find in the footer of the HIGHRESAUDIO homepage https://t.co/jQAt2Hil1c.
Key-Features:
• Access the full music archive - anytime / anywhere
• Fully curated music service by top-notch music journalists
• Curated and editorially maintained playlists
• Playlists based on Gerne and Themes
• Personal User-Profile (Genre-Mode)
• AirPlay 2 (connect and stream wirelessly to any Apple AirPlay device)
• DLNA/UPnP (connect and stream wirelessly to any DLNA/UPnP device)
• Bluetooth (connect and stream wirelessly to any Bluetooth device)
• HRA-VirtualVault (access and stream all your HRA-downloaded purchases)
Personal User-Profile (Genre-Mode)
Throughout a filter in the HIGHRESAUDIO Streaming App, the content of our streaming service can be customized to the personal music needs and requirements. When registering and subscribing, we ask for gender, age, preferred artists, genres and moods. This user-profile is saved and the filter which may be switched on and off in HIGHRESAUDIO Streaming App will change the content of the streaming service in the iOS App as desired. In the HIGHRESAUDIO account settings, the filter can be altered and saved and switched offed at anytime.
Customers that don't have a subscription, can still download the iOS App and stream free-of-charge their purchased HRA downloads from the HRA-VirtualVault (a private locker) server.
The well build and clearly structured iOS App, offers the customer an intuitive navigation to access: New Releases, Back-Catalogue, Editorial Recommendations, Performance Charts, Multi-Genre Playlists, Discover Mode, Customize Personal User-Profile (Genre-Mode), Create Own Playlists, Edit Playlists.
HIGHRESAUDIO doesn't manipulate, re-encode or use any filters to match the volume level across playlists of an album or curated playlists. Customers receive unaltered and full dynamics - different for each track, album, playlist. HIGHRESAUDIO doesn't down-sample on-the-fly or uses adaptive-streaming to adjust to narrow bandwidth connections. The worldwide play-out of the streams to the customer, goes via the Akamai Cloud. Most expensive but the very best solution!
HRA-Streaming by subscription:
• 7 days free trial
• HRA-Streaming: Special price: 79,00 EUR / 69,00 GBP (6 months)
• HRA-Streaming: Special price: 149,00 EUR / 129,00 GBP (12 months)
• HRA-Streaming + Downloads*: 199,00 EUR / 169,00 GBP Streaming + Downloads (12 months)
*With the Download option in the streaming subscription, the customer buys Downloads at a permanent discount of 30%. An attractive offer in case the customer wants to own his favorite albums or uses a music server.
HIGHRESAUDIO Streaming is also integrated in almost all well-known Hi-Fi manufacturers. A current list, you'll find in the footer of the HIGHRESAUDIO homepage.
Available in the Apple App Store from 5th June 2026.
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Review: David Giesel – Echoes of the Unknown
The Jazz Thing Next Generation series from Jazz Thing magazine continues to actively discover outstanding talents in the jazz scene and pave the way for them to break into the market. The latest addition to the series is David Giesel with his album *Echoes of the Unknown*, a remarkable addition in many ways to the collection, which now comprises 110 full-length albums. ...
Young talents at work. Nicely recorded session. Highly recommended *****
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Review: Nordic String Quartet – Peter Heise: Complete String Quartets
The Danish composer Peter Heise is best known for his numerous songs and, to some, for his opera Drot og marsk (King and Marshal). Even his contemporaries were largely unaware that he had written string quartets. Heise left behind a total of six such compositions, each in four movements. The Nordic String Quartet has now recorded them in their entirety and released them on Peter Heise: Complete String Quartets – three of them recorded for the very first time. ...
Enjoy this beautifully and pristine recorded album.
Highly recommended *****
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Review: Jasmine Myra – Where Light Settles
The ensemble that recorded Where Light Settles is opulent by jazz standards, particularly as it is not a big band: the booklet lists 15 instrumentalists and a conductor. And at the heart of it all is Jasmine Myra, a British saxophonist, composer, producer and the driving force behind this group of musicians. What do they have to offer? ...
Versatile and enjoyable! Highly recommended *****
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