At the HH2 event at the Mothership, in giving us a demo of the 808.2i / DSP8000 combo, Bob Stuart introduced us to Alice Pelle, an Italian jazz artiste and her album "Little Dream".

I believe the track he played was "GiorgnioNotte". I've been looking to source the album ever since and, just today, came across this French web site:

http://www.qobuz.com

which offers a commercial download service. The site is French language only! I picked lossless versions of the Alice Pelle album and Michael Jackson's "This Is It". They offer two lossless formats, WMA and M4A. The pricing of each was EUR 9.99 for CD quality and EUR 12.99 for lossless.

Playing each of these (via a Squeezebox into DSP 7000s, with no benefit of apodizing) the sound is stunning. I particularly liked a couple of stripped-down versions of Jacko tracks. I do like Alice Pelle's "GiorgnioNotte" and am beginning to get into one or two other Italian-language tracks (but I'm not sure I'm so keen on the English-language tracks on the album).

I hope that's useful to folks.

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