THE MOLA MOLA KULA INTEGRATED

pieces, with Sandy Denny’s sublime vocals and Richard Thompson’s modal guitar lines having a hypnotic effect. The Kula provided holographic images and brought out the drama in renditions of “Matty Groves”, “Tam Lin”, “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” and “A Sailor’s Life”.

A young artist out of the UK, Joshua Burnell, has taken up the British folk rock torch and carried it forward with great skill.

of the organic nature of these recordings, and allowed a certain authenticity to shine through. Magical!

To further put the Kula DAC module through its paces, we spent a few weeks with high resolution downloads and lots of SACD rips. We cued up everything from the 24 bit, 96 kHz AC/DC catalogue remasters, the 192 kHz Rush remasters, and then transitioned to lots of excellent jazz, like the recent 192 kHz and mixes in excellent original compositions with classic British folk tunes, like “Blackleg Miner”, “Lowlands Of Holland” and “She Moved Through The Fair”. His recordings, done with a friendly cast of superb musicians, are extremely good. The Kula got to the heart releases like the sonically and musically excellent Art Moves Jazz, a 96 kHz download from the Quentin Baxter Quintet.

Without exception, at all resolutions, the digital side of the Kula was stupendous. In fact, it rivals and maybe even surpasses many