![]() ![]() When the 3 USB Wafer cards arrived, I was very impressed with the packaging. The wafer cards arrive in the mail in a little over 2 weeks from Austria to California.ĭSD Wafer Cards In Shipping Box (Photo Credit: Brian Moura) To order, you send a list of the desired albums to Horch House, they provide a cost of the order with shipping, you send them payment and the wafer cards are sent to you from Austria Post. I was intrigued about this new offering from Horch House so I visited their web site and selected 3 albums to order. A wafer card is a flat data card the size of the credit card that has a USB connector that unfolds to connect to your computer. Instead they sell their analog to digital downloads on USB Wafer Cards. Unlike most music sites today, Horch House does not offer music downloads. All prices include VAT for European customers. The Vinyl LP editions of the albums are also in this range, selling for 33 Euros in the case of the Ella Fitzgerald album. The DSD and WAV music files allow the company to enter the digital music market and to share their analog conversion expertise with listeners for a fraction of the price of the Analog Tape copies.įor example, the album Sunshine of Your Love by Ella Fitzgerald sells for 24.50 Euros (24/96 WAV files) to 34.50 Euros (DSD 64fs files) while the Analog Tape edition sells for 398.00 Euros. The next step was transferring these analog recordings to Vinyl LP for sale.Īt High End Audio in Munich the company not only showed their Analog Tapes and Vinyl LPs for sale but also a new line of high quality music files in single rate DSD 64fs as well as 24-bit/96kHz and 24-bit/192kHz WAV files. Horch House began by selling copies of Jazz, Blues and Classical albums on Analog Tape, carefully transferred from the Analog Tapes of the record labels and repackaged handsomely. From there, Lange began looking for high quality analog tape copies of albums to play on his new A80 and this ultimately led to the formation of Horch House. Lange is a fan of high quality audio and more specifically analog tape, first with a pair of Revox PR-99 tape machines and more recently a Studer A80 Studio Analog Tape Recorder in 2012. Volker Lange is not only the Managing Director Purchasing for Lutz Precision, but he is also the Managing Director of Horch House. Volker Lange, Managing Director, Horch House (Photo Credit: Horch House) While it probably seems a bit odd for such a company to be involved in high resolution audio, it is largely explained by the interests of one of the company's Managing Directors. For those of you who aren't familiar with the company, Horch House is the analog audio division of Lutz Precision, a worldwide leader in auto making equipment based in Austria. One of the interesting exhibits at the recent High End Audio show in Munich earlier this year featured Horch House. ![]()
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