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Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | EugenF - September 23, 2026

Wander how the sound (stereo) of this Sony sacd release compares with the recent release of Hemiolia label? More infos about the new Hemiolia Kind of ...

Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 - Honeck | Adrian Quanjer - September 12, 2026

Last night I listened once more to Beethoven's 5th in Honeck's personalised interpretation. I found it difficult to set the volume at a realistic level. At times it was either ...

Funkadelic: Maggot Brain | analogue - October 8, 2026

Hello; This release was a welcome one. Traditionally the first track seems to overshadow the other ones, with good reason, but as a whole this album is truly a classic. ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - October 2, 2026

Thanks for your comments, EugenF. Yes, there was a hard filter used in the Hemiolia SACD mastering that is visible in the spectrogram in my PDF. Since that hard filter doesn't ...

John Hammond: Rough & Tough | Kveld-Úlfr - October 7, 2026

Already own the first edition John Hammond: Rough & Tough, catalogue reference SACD346, and I find it really great to see it reissued for all hose who missed ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - October 4, 2026

Thanks to EugenF and Longjohns for contributing to this informative discussion thread. It helped to answer questions about the source of the Hemiolia SACD. Several site ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - September 23, 2026

The Hemiola label uses production master tapes (tapes sent to LP pressing plants) as the source for their own tape copies, and for the Miles Davis SACD. The Hemiola release ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - October 3, 2026

There is a relevant discussion here on a German site (some of it in English, the rest easily translatable), which states it (the Hemiolia) is derived from Job Reel C. Also ...

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