Listed in alphabetical club. Some of the free offerings may expire and new files may be bachelor. Some services require sign up and some do not. Hither yous discover hi-res files from 24/48K to 24/192K, DSD and beyond.
- I attempt my all-time to make sure these are all legal downloads
- I continually update this list whenever I notice new Gratis content
What'due south New:
07/xiv/15: Victor Studio HD Music (Nippon)
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2L-THE NORDIC Audio
"Norway is blessed with many churches and cathedrals and well-nigh of 2L'due south recordings are made in these wonderful spaces. The music captured past 2L features Norwegian composers and performers, and an international repertoire reflected in the Nordic atmosphere. Lindberg Lyd (2L) has been passionate about Super Audio CD and since the year 2000 has been making serious investment in the new format through advanced equipment and pioneering technology similar DXD."
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters" performed past Iver Kleive at the Bergen Cathedral (pipe organ) is a very nice rail
3Dio
A hires recording using their binaural microphone
ANADYOMENE RECORDS
Release: Brunette Models – Autarky -Single. Artist: Brunette Models. Album: Autarky – Unmarried. Quality: Studio Principal 24bit/96kHz High – Resolution audiophile FLAC version.
ANALEKTA
3 gratis tracks to test the-better-than-CD FLAC format and to compare with the MP3
AUDIO ASYLUM (user contribution)
User Ladan is contributing 24/96 tape tranfers:
Stravinksy Rite of Bound
"I have this exact recording on CD, it was released every bit role of a box set up, The Original Jacket Drove, in 1999. Compared to that CD, your recording has more air and space around the instruments. It's not warm (few Columbia recordings were)but it'due south not "digital" either."
Beethoven ninth PSO
"Prissy clear recording; puts some commercial 'transfers' to shame"
Rachmaninoff, Kraft, Weber etc
BANDCAMP
Search for "24bit". This site is non strictly free, just many tracks are sold as "name your price" with no minimum amount.
Blue COAST RECORDS [Click "free downloads"]
"The recordings you hear on this page were made in front of a live audience without eq, compression or effects added to enhance the song. These are raw files as nosotros heard played in the room."
Through the KORG AudioGate webpage, you can access addional (1 or more) DSD tracks. This would require registration even if you have already registered
BRAVURA RECORDS
5 Christmas tracks in 24bit/44.1K
"Our future anthology releases will be available as 24/192 how-do-you-do res copies of the original master recordings. These downloads, however, are at 24/44.1. Because of our commitment to the highest quality sound, there is no digital limiting used in the mastering of these songs, or any Bravura Records releases for that thing. As a result, the level of these downloads may be every bit much as 6 db lower than most commercial CDs."
CARDAS Audio
"Christopher & Jason Tree, recorded November of 2010. Recorded to 96/24 WAV files, with a pair of Cardas Aureate Ellipsoid microphones arranged in an X/Y pattern."
CHANNEL Archetype RECORDS
File consisting of iii versions of the aforementioned rails, in 3 dissimilar sample rates. The current track is: Duo for violin and viola no. one in C major – Allegro. The recording has been awarded SA-CD.net: 5 StarsPerformance/ 5 Stars Sonics
The latest download parcel includes a DSD version of the track. Seems the gratis tracks change from time to time. The current download is: Lavinia Meijer – Harp/Philip Glass – Metamorphosis Three
CLASSICAL SHOP
2 samples bachelor for download. Classical music from Chandos and other labels.
CYBELE RECORDS
PCM and DSD high-res tracks.
DACAPO RECORDS
Test files in different file formats. You volition hear an extract of the second movement (Allegretto sostenuto) of P.E. Lange-Müller'due south Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C major, op. 69 (1902) from our acclaimed 2009 release, Romantic Violin Concertos
dCS
dCS is providing a few superbly recorded, high resolution tracks gratis of charge. Click "Music" and and so "Downloads"
One of the few sites with a 175KHz track…
Blueprint Due west SOUND
Sample tracks from Kent Poon's mastering work. At that place are 4 sample tracks available in a variety of loftier resolution PCM formats and DSD.
"Widely regarded as one of the acme Asia audiophile producers and engineers, Kent started his enquiry almost audio production in Due north America since the year of 1993. He worked with wide range for music mastering productions; from classical, jazz, hip hop, electronic, country to dance; from pop artist Jay Chow to French Canadian Jazz vocaliser Marcia."
- Audiophile Jazz Prologue Part Iii: sample tracks in 2.viii MHz DSD, 24/96K, 24/192K and 24/384K formats: [link]
- Audiophile Jazz Prologue Part IV: sample rail in v.6 MHz DSD and 24/192K AIFF: [link]
- Chinese pop songs (in AIFF, WAV and DSD format): [link1] [link2].
Digital Domain
Mastering demos in loftier resolution
DSD-GUIDE.com
4 sample tracks in DSD format
DSD Principal
Gratuitous downloads which showcase "DSD Primary", and compare its output with equivalent files produced past two well-respected products which produce DSD-to-PCM conversions, Korg Audiogate and Weiss Saracon.
Apart from the DSF originals, all files are in AIFF format. All of the PCM versions were created using DSD Master, from the DSD original provided, with the exceptions of the comparison versions labelled "Saracon" and "Audiogate".
eCLASSICAL
"24-bit FLACs (studio quality) are the highest quality nosotros can offer. They are substantially superior to CD quality, i.east. even closer to the live experience. You will detect many recent albums (and many more to come!) in this format. The sample rate of these files varies, depending on the charge per unit that was used for the recording in question. It ranges up to 96 kHz…"
In that location are half-dozen exam files at the cease of the folio comparison MP3, 16-chip FLAC and 24-scrap FLAC
e-Onkyo
Japanese hires store. Large catalog of Hard disk music. The portal was launched iii days afterward iTunes [link]. Since the site is in Japanese, it is kind of circuitous to navigate and buy tracks. However, the sample tracks are free downloads without requiring registration. If you wish to purchase tracks, here is a link that might assistance: [link]
The sample 5.1 environs can be found hither: http://music.due east-onkyo.com/contents/surround.asp
Tracks available in DSD format (besides as PCM hires) [link]
FREE Audio PROJECT
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on audio, not songs.
Many of the tracks are recorded in high resolution. Search for "24bit" [link]
GIMELL
In addition to examination files, there is also a costless rail from their collection. The outset runway is free in several high resolution formats including five.1.
"For the 2d time in consecutive years Gimell and The Tallis Scholars take been nominated for a Grammy Award. The latest nomination is for the recording of Victoria's Lamentations of Jeremiah – made to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the composer, Tomás Luis de Victoria, who died in August 1611."
If the link in a higher place does not piece of work, employ http://www.gimell.com/recording-free-trial-downloads-1.aspx
HDKlassik
7 Gratis Tracks in various Hard disk formats, including DSD and Surround
HDTA
Ii Chinese Classical tracks performed in traditional GuZheng. Tracks are in 24/96KHz
[She is Not the musician performing the pieces; just a nice pic :-)]
HD TRACKS
Sample Album (with PDF liner notes)
one – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden – Dance of the Tumblers
2 – Lucia
3 – Big Bad Girl
iv – Misery
5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto in Chiliad major (KV 216) – Allegro
My favorite is "Lucia" by Marta Gomez:
"Graduada con honores de la prestigiosa Berklee College of Music luego de recibir la beca "Best Accomplishment", la canta-autora colombiana Marta Gómez, ha desarollado una carrera artística que la posiciona como una de las compositoras eastward intérpretes más destacadas de la bodily escena musical internacional. Marta Fué nominada en el 2005 a los premios Billboard de la música latina en la categoría Jazz Latino junto a Paco De Lucía, Gonzalo Rubalcaba y Néstor Torres y ha sido calificada por la prensa como una cantante con una "voz exquisita". El diario "Los Angeles Times" la describió recientemente como "un talento excepcional con una voz sublime"."
Her CDs are in brusk supply and likely at full price no affair where you get it. The HD downloads are actually a skilful value!
HDTT
There are four sample hires (24/96K) tracks available for download.
"High Definition Tape Transfers specializes in rare classical recordings mastered with the all-time mastering equipment available".
According to a mail service in Stereophile, these files are as well from HDTT
HIFI STATEMENT netmagazine
Many Jazz and Classical tracks. The Classical tracks are from "Pristine Classical" remastered in their XR engineering. High res tracks are offered in different resolutions, for example, Paul Kuhn Trio Willow Weep For Me is in 24/48K whereas Kagerer/Nieberle/Darau Delight Come up Dwelling house For Christmas is in 24/192k.
D. Petrocca Trio feat. J. Kraus "Deborah'due south Theme" in 24 bit / 96 kHz Sounds existent GOOD. Highly recommended.
This is one of ten sample tracks recorded at the famous Birdland Jazz Club in Germany
The hosting server is really fast (I was able to download a 24/96 track in two minutes. Download speed is up to 1.1 MB/sec).
The download link is at the end of the multipage article which accompanies each artist/story
HIFITRACK 中文高清音樂網
A costless 24/96K track for registering. (This is the rails I got for free)
"…provide digital music download services for audiophiles. It is the commencement music download site for audiophiles in Greater China and is one of the few pioneers in the world .The digital music available on HifiTrack.com is in high resolution WAV format including "Direct studio primary version"(DSMV), a music file that is made directly available on HifiTrack.com from the studio with no extraction or processing for the end users to purchase and download, for the audiophiles' pursuit of the ultimate hi-allegiance and music enjoyment. Among them are country-of-the-art 24 bit/96 kHz and 24 fleck/48 kHz vocal files."
HIGHRESAUDIO
At the terminate of the folio there is a "Gratuitous Download" link (with registration)
ifi
Quad-Speed DSD256 sample tracks
INTERNET Archive
The above link represents an advanced-search query containing the term "96KHz" and "FLAC" and omitting the terms "16bit" and "CDWav". This results in near 100 files. The following link restricts to hires alive music only (~l files every bit of today). Information technology is hard to filter out all the non-hi-res files. You'll have to play with the query string or check every file. Download speed is as well very fast, up to one.1MB/sec; probably limited by my download bandwidth.
Try the 12 minute -track: "Eyes of the World" past Phil Lesh and Friends in 24bit/96KHz. It is actually Expert!
Also try "Soba" by The Benevento-Russo Duo also a 24/96K track.
"This sound archive is an online public library of live recordings available for royalty-gratis, no-cost public downloads. Nosotros just host material past trade-friendly artists: those who like the idea of noncommercial distribution of some or all of their alive cloth. Live recordings are a part of our culture and might be lost in 100 years if they're not archived. We think music matters and desire to preserve information technology for futurity generations."
"The LMA draws strength from the members of etree.org and other online communities of music fans devoted to providing public admission to high-quality digital recordings of tradable performances. Typically, recordings are made by the fans themselves. Recordings are preserved in "Lossless" archival compression formats such as Shorten or FLAC (MP3 is not Lossless) for highest quality preservation."
Ryan Adams Live at Das Haus on 2006-x-17 has get a very popular download.
Available in 24bit FLAC format [link]
iTRAX
The sample track (extract from The AIX Allstar Ring – Moonlight Acoustica) is available in 24/96K in Stereo and 5.ane. iTrax is the digital shop of AIX records.
"Mark Waldrep, Ph.D., the man behind the only all-Hd Audio label AIX Records has announced the launch of iTrax.com, the earth's start digital music download service to offer Existent HD Audio in environment sound. iTrax.com will launch in June (2007) and include tracks from AIX Records and several other audiophile catalogs."
JAMENDO
"Jamendo is a customs of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!"
Some tracks are bachelor in 24bit/88KHz resolution. (Available through legal P2P downloads). Search for "24bit". As of this writing in that location were 24 albums available in loftier resolution. Other terms to search: "lossless", "FLAC"
There is a lot of good music here…
Simply Mind
A compilation of several tracks in native DSD and available in single speed, dual speed and quad speed DSD format
KOSTAS METAXAS Click "Recordings" for more than files
"Kostas Metaxas is an creative person producing country-of-the-art Howdy-End Audio systems …He has been recording concerts since 1986 …and recorded over 200 concerts including legendary performers such as Charles Dutoit, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Konstantin Lifschitz, Takacs, Il Giardino Armonico, James Morrison, Mike Nock, ACO, ASQ, Jerusalem Trio, Yvonne Kenny and Fritz Hauser."
LESS LOSS
"Taking high resolution recording to the topmost level, LessLoss is charting new waters in sound recording allegiance. These recordings, all available for download, are based on the old-school method of finding the all-time microphone position and and then recording the real, live event, without the use of any subsequent processing to influence the original audio signal. Power supply is exclusively LessLoss Firewall Ability Filter and LessLoss Dynamic Filtering Ability Cables. Enjoy these true loftier fidelity sounds!"
LINN RECORDS [Test files]
25 free tracks during Christmas 2013: [link]
25 free tracks during Christmas 2012: [link]
Free examination files: [link]
MASTERS FOR THEIR 24-hour interval (Discussion hither)
"Benchmark has created this web series, 'Masters From Their Solar day'. Each episode volition certificate a cooperative squad of highly-skilled 'collaborators' (artists, engineers, studios, etc) gathered for one day to execute a studio recording. The resultant mastered recordings from each mean solar day in the studio (the 'Masters From Their Day', as information technology were) are featured at the cease of each episode and are available for yous to download as uncompressed sound files."
MSB
Scrap-Perfect Exam tracks
Perhaps i of the about useful features of the DAC IV is the chip-perfect exam. A series of files tin be downloaded hither. They are .wav test files that when played, will be identified by the DAC Four and checked, and will be reported on the display if they are bit perfect. The message will stay on for about six seconds. If in that location is a trouble with the test, the file will play and a loud burst of static like sound will be heard but the display will not point whatever change.
Available in 24 and 32 chip, 44.1KHz sample rate through 384KHz sample rate
NAIM label
- Two hi-res tracks: ane 24/48 and another 24/88 from the Australian trio Trichotomy
- Search for "costless download" for more than free tracks
- 24/96K boosted test files (excerpts) here
NINE INCH NAILS
"…As a cheers to our fans for your continued support, we are giving abroad the new nine inch nails album … the music is bachelor in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 Moving ridge. your link will include all options – all gratuitous"
Open up GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
The Open Goldberg Variations by Kimiko Ishizaka are free to download and share. They are governed by the Creative Commons Zero license, which means that they are a part of the public domain. (24/94K tracks available)
A Kickstarter funded project, the supporters were: "creating a new score and studio recording of J.Due south. Bach's Goldberg Variations, and we're placing them in the public domain* for everyone to own and use without limitations on licensing. Bach wrote his seminal work over 270 years agone, yet public domain scores and recordings are difficult or impossible to find. Until at present!"
OPPO
"David Elias is an independent musician who records in DSD, and he has made a number of demo tracks bachelor for OPPO customers in a variety of formats, including native DSD and lossless PCM. The dainty thing most owning a thespian that supports a wide diverseness of formats is that y'all are able to make up one's mind for yourself whether you lot prefer DSD or PCM audio (or if y'all hear a difference between the two at all!)"
POSITIVE FEEDBACK
"To celebrate our cooperation with hifistatement.cyberspace, we are pleased to offer the following: A free download in16/44.1, 24/192 and DSD of Michel Godard und Steve Swallows "A Trace of Grace".
The .wav and DSD files are produced directly from the analogue mastertape of this sommelier du son-LP. The comprehend shows the monastery's refectory where the recording was captured."
PRISTINE CLASSICAL
These are NOT Hires, but remasters of classical/historical performance in XR engineering science:
"ane- Best possible, neutral transfer . 2- Restoration of the flaws caused by the storage medium (disc, record etc.) . 3- Restoration of flaws caused past the recording equipment (microphones, amplifiers, disc cutters, disc mastering etc.)."
"Ambient Stereo" recreates the ambiance data from the mono masters through stereo reproduction.
Click the XR icon on the site's webpage to download.
POP Popular MUSIC
Offset ever High-Res download courtesy of Pop Popular Music
Beloved Music Lovers and Audiophiles,
As a leading Chinese Jazz music label in this region, we are offering the first-ever high-res (96 KHz/24 flake) download of ONE vocal (Teresa Teng'due south Cantonese hit, 忘記他, Forgetting Him) from our latest anthology: Winnie HO "The Jazzy Sounds of Teresa Teng".
This is a gratuitous service extended to readers of this blog and we hope if you like it enough, y'all would purchase the album!
REFERENCE RECORDINGS & COMPUTER AUDIOPHILE [and here]
"CA supporter and manufacture leader Reference Recordings has supplied 2 costless high resolution audio tracks for Calculator Audiophile readers… these are from RR classics Thinking Virtually Bix and Reveries. The tracks are offered in stunning HRx 24/176.4 quality"
SOUNDCLOUD
This is a legal music sharing site. Some tracks are in high def. There is a search facility but I constitute it not very like shooting fish in a barrel to find high resolution files. Some files tin can be downloaded.
Lee Hairdresser Live is a contribution by SY (diyaudio). It is a alive recording out of his living room. Discussion here: [link]
SOUNDKEEPER RECORDINGS
Samples from their four albums recorded live with a two-mic setpup
"Often, the loftier resolution version of a record is mastered at a different session, sometimes past a unlike engineer. At many so-called "format shootouts", one hears level differences, EQ differences, etc., making a true comparison of the formats impossible. Astute listeners realize these are comparisons of different masterings and non of the formats themselves."
"In an effort to provide some help, Soundkeeper Recordings is providing these samples from the same album, aforementioned mastering session, etc. A number of folks we know, who use upsampling devices to play dorsum their CDs, take constitute these useful in illuminating the pluses as well every bit minuses of their up-conversion, as they can now compare the results with a truthful high res version."
" The goal is to build a span (liaison) between the studio (engineer and musicians) and the people who love to mind to beautiful music using high quality sound equipment". Sample tracks available in 94/24
Samples of ii tracks in four unlike formats.
A: 96/24 WAV
B: 96/24 FLAC
C: 16/44 WAV (CD)
D: 320kbps MP3
The free tracks are available in 3 formats. DSD (64 DFF), WAV and FLAC
01. Carmen Gomes Inc. – A 1000 Shades of Blue
02. Andre Heuvelman – Later Silence*
"Suzy graduated from the Halifax School for the Blind and the University of Toronto. In 1977, she received the Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where she was a student of Jacob Maxin."
At that place are 6 hi-res files in this site. Susan Lauck is the tardily married woman of AudioAsylum contributor Tony Lauck.
HD music sample from Nippon Hd music store. Two sample tracks in compressed, 44.1K and loftier res formats (96K/24)
"For those who dear music and audio quality, we offer ultra high resolution figurer downloads of albums of our own original master recordings produced in various file formats and priced accordingly. A transcendent digital music listening feel is bachelor with SMRD – Studio Primary Reference Disc"
In that location is a unmarried test file which sounds really skilful (too bad is simply 30seconds). The examination file is available in 12 different resolutions and file format, from 44.1K mp3 to 32bit/192K WAV.
(Click the "Donate" button for download link)
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PAID SITES
For the sake of abyss, I've added this section for vendors that do non have any costless tracks or sample tracks to give away.
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"A Digital Delivery Network for DSD and PCM music tracks that sends the highest quality audio to music lovers effectually the globe using its proprietary system of MicroStores. Downloads NOW! was the kickoff DSD digital music shop sending full size music files through the net."
Purchase and download Opus3 Records samplers in DSD64 and DSD128 format and other works.
Qobuz – La musique est de retour
Qobuz : un site de téléchargement haute-fidélité, d'écoute à la demande, d'information musicale et d'échanges comme vous n'en avez encore jamais "entendu" ! Un site où tous les styles se côtoient et se répondent, en pleine intelligence et en parfaite harmonie.
Un site en haute fidélité, où la musique est plus belle. Un site fidèle à la musique.
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