PS Audio Debuts Octave Hi-Res Music Label With Don Grusin DSD Piano Recording

PS Audio’s first title for its Octave music label is Out of Thin Air, a solo performance from pianist Don Grusin. The high-end audio company launched the label Wednesday with a charter of “preserving the art of high-fidelity recordings and compensating musicians fairly.” Grusin’s recording is available on a two-disc limited Super Audio CD/CD set with Direct Stream Digital encoding, 192kHz/24-bit PCM sampling and CD formats, said the company. Octave covers all studio, mixing, mastering, production, distribution and marketing expenses so artists have a direct share of sales revenue, said to be 10-20 times those of other labels, said Scott McGowan, PS Audio director. Octave artists own their music and have creative control, he said. Octave’s engineer, Gus Skinas, has worked on hundreds of recordings, including titles from the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Nat King Cole and George Harrison. Out of Thin Air was recorded and mixed at Grusin’s Moose Sound studio in Colorado.