Stockfisch Record Collection

Selection, HIFI / June 9, 2018

Stockfisch Record（老虎鱼） 是一家来自德国的唱片公司。所录音与发行的都是民谣、蓝调等以吉他与人声为主的专辑。公司灵魂人物是创办人Gunter Pauler，他也是著名的制作人和录音师。

在德国北部的Pauler Acoustics录音室除了拥有非常好的音响设备，他也非常擅长用独到眼光选择艺人，所以Stockfisch的歌手都是自弹、自写、自唱的高手。因此许多国际知名的民谣歌手非常乐意远赴德国，并选择这家录音室为他们录制专辑，这就显见了歌手们对这家唱片公司拥有十足信心。

老虎鱼公司旗下歌手包括Allan﹒Taylor，Sara﹒K，Chnis﹒jones，Mike﹒Silber，Steve﹒Strauss，David﹒Munyon，Paul﹒Stephenson及David﹒Roth等，都是顶尖的发烧唱将。所出品的专辑，风格几乎是酒廊爵士及民谣等的音响发烧碟。强烈推荐的音乐人是Allan Taylor及Sara K。

2004年，Stockfisch Studio 发行了一张名为《CLOSER TO THE MUSIC》的人声发烧专辑，该碟也是首张采用了SACD制作的人声专辑。相信听过这张碟的朋友都会对其录音和带来的效果赞誉不绝。该专辑集合了公司旗下的多位顶尖发烧天皇、天后，如Allan Taylor、Sara K、David Roth等。《CLOSER TO THE MUSIC》收录的曲目，都能在歌手各自的专辑里头找到，而最大的不同就是此碟中的曲目是特别经过DSD处理。原录音的人声已经相当出色，但经过DSD处理并压制成SACD版本后，整个专辑听来更加厚实和自然。

这张多年来的第一张精选辑是包含了来自Stockfisch的八位唱将和十二张专辑的里的百般挑选的十七首歌曲，绝对是乐迷首次接触这家公司录音的最佳选择。老牌的民谣歌手Allan Taylor早就是「音响论坛」杂志总编辑刘汉盛大力推荐的歌手，他低沈浑厚的嗓音与优秀的吉他技巧都让人着迷；另外一位歌手是弹奏四弦吉他的Sara K，她是音响迷们最熟悉的天后之一。Sara 也曾在Stockfish录音室制作了一张专辑和一张现场演唱式的唱片。当中的曲目也可以在这张精选专辑中听到。所有曲子的旋律优美、编曲轻松不腻人、加上歌手的深情投入的演唱，深深吸引了喜欢民谣的音乐人。难而可贵的是在制作这张精选辑时既然选用了B&W Nautilus 801喇叭做为鉴听的标准，并成功带出了让人不容质疑的透明和清晰的录音品质。另外这张用双层SACD精选辑，拥有通透的SACD高解析度特性，可以听到 Stockfisch对于声音品质的坚持度，细节表现比其他专辑的发行更上一层楼，所以音响迷们怎能错过呢？

Stockfisch Records is a German independent record label, aimed at audiophile fans of guitar-oriented singer-songwriter music and was formed in 1974 by Günter Pauler. Based in Germany, the main focus is European artists, but there are also American musicians working with Stockfisch, some of them expatriates living in Germany.

Stockfisch releases vinyl editions of albums and Direct Stream Digital-recordings released as hybrid Super Audio CDs.

The two artists with which Stockfisch Records started out in 1974 were Werner Lämmerhirt and David Qualey. They as guitar-playing singer-songwriters set the tone for many of their kind to come. Over the years, however, other instrumentalists apart from guitarists signed to Stockfisch.

In 2001, Pauler managed to get the “Queen of Audiophile” Sara K. to sign to Stockfisch Records after her contract with Chesky Records had expired. Sara K. mentions that she was convinced to sign after Pauler had gotten Chris Jones as accompaniment and sent her a fair but unheard of one-page record contract. The live album Live in Concert (2003) which resulted from her 2002 Bowers & Wilkins-sponsored “Nautilus” tour was chosen as the best audophile CD of 2003 by the readers of the German magazine AUDIO/stereoplay and received their Hifi Music Award 2003.