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Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees | Downunderman - June 25, 2026

Released in May 2026 and based on a 2023 remaster. The tape used and who remastered it does not appear to be on the public record as of now. One quirk is that the CD layer ...

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Downunderman - July 4, 2026

Thanks Mark. Amazing that the label allowed 75+ year old tapes out of their sight and into outside hands to be mastered........and remarkable they were still in good enough ...

Scaggs: Boz Scaggs | Downunderman - July 4, 2026

This 2013 SACD used the original 1969 mix of the album and is the first use on digital. For CDs up to this point the 1977 remix had been used. It was mastered for SACD by ...

Van Halen: 1984 | MacClaus - June 6, 2026

This remaster sounds lifeless. A big disappointment.

Van Halen: 1984 | analogue - June 16, 2026

Howdy. My own experience with this new sacd is much different than yours. I found it to be rather well balanced all around. Highly crankable and powerfully subtle. I had a ...

Van Halen: 1984 | Downunderman - June 28, 2026

This from over on the Hoffman site; "“Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab’s commitment is to deliver the most definitive and satisfying listening experiences possible. We have ...

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Mark Werlin - July 3, 2026

Downunderman: According to Blue Note, the Tone Poet LP version of Birth of the Cool "...was mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog phono reel ...

Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down | Downunderman - July 1, 2026

Released in December 2025 and first time on SACD The album was originally engineered by Rudy Van Gelder and Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound is credited with the "Reissue ...

Brahms II - Elegiac Switzerland

Musicaphon  M 56947

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Othmar Schoeck: Concerto quasi una fantasia for violin and orchestra in B flat major, Op. 21

Carlos Johnson, Violin
Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck
Roman Brogli-Sacher

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Works (2)

• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
• Othmar Schoeck: Violin Concerto in B flat major, Op. 21 'quasi una fantasia'

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