Welcome to the first blog in the Art of Imaging blog series. We hope you’ll like these articles and hope that they’re informative in that they may help you a bit in understanding how recordings are made. In this first article, we’re going to focus on tricking your brain and ears through a field of …

Here at TRPTK, we’re all about realism in sound. But exactly defines a realistic recording? What makes a recording give you, the listener, a sense of being there, an almost palpable experience? In this blog series, I will talk you through some of the concepts of how realism in sound can be achieved, and how …

It’s got to be one of the most talked about topics in the world of audiophilia: can you hear the difference between MP3 and WAV? We wanted to definitively know as well, so we conconcted a little test to find out, and many of you have participated, listening to the differences — if there are …

At TRPTK, we generally record our artists’ performances in DSD256 for its natural sound quality, specifically with our Merging Technologies Hapi MkII A/D-converters. Since processing in DSD is a very difficult and impractical process, the DSD signal is then converted into PCM, and more specifically, 352.8kHz 64bit floating point. Once in the territory of PCM, …

Welcome to an exploration of the world of audio mastering, where we scrutinize sound quality, valuing every subtle nuance. I’m Thijs Muijs, the latest addition to the TRPTK team, and I invite you to join me as we delve into the process of transforming our original DSD recordings into pristine high-resolution and spatial audio downloads, …

There’s no audio format simpler than good old WAV. Right? Well, it’s more complicated than you think, and today we want to include you in our journey of discovering what exactly WAV entails, how two WAV files can be vastly different, and even why some WAV files just don’t get recognised by your playback software. …

A short little while ago, we asked you to listen to a couple of samples recorded using different (analogue) microphone cables and fill out a form describing whether you hear a difference, and if so, what that difference entails. All this to, hopefully for once and for all, settle the age-old argument: do audio cables …

I think we can all agree that Spatial Audio is the final frontier when it comes to enjoying acoustic music, such as classical or contemporary classical music. Creating a holographic “image” with the musicians almost palpably in front of you, with the immersive acoustics of the recording venue all around it, all blended together to …

If you read this blog, you probably already know we have some pretty wild stuff in our studio — high-end boutique microphones, ultra-linear preamplifiers, a 5.1.4-channel system with high-end loudspeakers and amplification, and, perhaps controversially, really expensive cables. Some say there’s no difference at all between a high-end cable and a coat hanger, some say …

In our never-ending quest for the ultimate sound quality, we have been looking for tools and techniques that help us get precisely there. And today, let me tell you the story of how we ended up changing our entire production chain to provide you with better quality music whilst lowering our overall resolution. From 24bit …