Celebrating the Art and Spirit of music Vol. 1

STS Digital Celebrating the Art and Spirit of music Vol. 1

STS Digital 6111124

Premium High End Recording Label from the Netherlands

STS Digital Celebrating the Art and Spirit of music Vol. 1 featuring Leonardo Amuedo – guitar and band.

STS Digital are one of Europe’s leading audiophile recording and music production studios, still using the analogue (tape) medium wherever possible for the best musical sound and dynamics.  Based in Holland, they have been used by several leading component manufacturers such as Marantz, Siltech, AudioQuest and many others to produce CDs of exquisite musical quality. Over the years, they have developed their own unique ‘MW process’ to make their recordings sound as good as possible from studio masters for CD and LP.

Track List for Celebrating the Art and Spirit of music Vo.1

1. Encuentros
2. Angel De La Guardia
3. Golden Dreams
4. Universal
5. Otoñal
6. Mil Años Despues
7. Mistura
8. On the Amsterdam Canals
9. 12 Diaz
10. Sooner or Later
11. Barcelona
12. Corporal (duo)

THE STS RECORDING PHILOSOPHY

To begin with, they love music. It is a wonderful way to express their feelings and enables them to communicate with everyone equally. They also love the sound of musical instruments, played in superb acoustic surroundings, where they sound pure and warm. Unfortunately most CD’s, LP’s and Reel to Reel tapes are poorly recorded. Often the microphones are placed too closely to the instruments, causing a harsh sound and a lack of ambience.

To address these issues they started STS Digital twenty years ago. They wanted to do something totally different. The result is their fine selection of recordings from series like: Extended Dynamic Experience, Celebrate the Art & Spirit of Music, Siltech Test Demo CD, The Absolute Sound Reference and many LP’s and Reel to Reel Tapes.

Across all these series and products they give every musical instrument the space it needs, allowing them to hear the original sound in a wonderful ambience. A saxophone will sound like a saxophone and not like a clarinet and a piano will sound like a piano and not a like keyboard.
This is why they choose to record music in the acoustic space of a concert hall or church, instead of in a dead sounding studio with the microphones too close to the instruments.

They use the very best Schoeps microphones and to preserve their fine signals we use gold or silver cables from Siltech and copper cables from Van den Hul. To ensure pristine mains power they have developed our own 6 pack AC Power Block which cleans up the AC current. They patiently judge the sound of the artist’s performance in the concert room using our their hearing and then return to their recording room to ensure that you will hear the same natural sound in your home.
Often this means avoiding close microphone placement.  Great care is taken in the mixing and mastering of our recordings. They guard every step in the recording process with our ears, like a wolf in the night.

They even check the results during every step in the production process and compare the playback to the original recordings. They acknowledge that most manufacturers of CD’s, LP’s and Reel to Reel Tapes are reluctant to finance such high grade quality control. That’s where STS differ because they enjoy the financial assistance of manufacturers of the best audio equipment. Thanks to their help STS can go as far as possible to reach that High End standard.
STS Digital are very grateful for the support of our sponsors such as Grandinote, C.E.C., Quintafila, Thorens, Siltech, Sonnet-Morpheus, Trafomatic, Audioquest, Nessie and Meze headphones.

When you enjoy listening to the STS Digital productions, please remember that they did their very best to bring you the best possible sound. Their goal is nothing less than being the best of the best!