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Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - October 12, 2026

EugenF: The article by Matej Isak linked to your most recent post provides a lot of interesting detail about the equipment used to master Hemiolia's releases, but it also ...

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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 ...

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Available on Qobuz (but only in 16/44.1, for now). Currently I cannot locate the highres file for streaming or downloading, not even on Prelude Classics' own website. If ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - October 12, 2026

The discussion thread about the Hemiolia SACD here: Miles Davis: Kind of Blue supersedes my comment, above.

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 ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | EugenF - October 11, 2026

Thank you again Mark for very useful infos about waveforms & spectrograms. Just want to add another quote, regarding the tape source of Hemiolia's SACD: 'Hemiolia presents, ...

Patricia Barber: Modern Cool

Premonition Records  669179076140

Stereo/Multichannel Single Layer

Jazz - Vocal

"Modern Cool"

Patricia Barber (vocals, piano, table knives on string)
Michael Arnopol (bass)
John McLean (guitar)
Mark Walker ( drums, percussion, prepared kit, tin can-o-phone)
Jeff Stitely (udu)
Dave Douglas (trumpet)
Choral Thunder Vocal Choir

All

Recording

Re-mixed in surround at the legendary Skywalker Sound Studios by original recording engineer Jim Anderson
Surround mastered by Darcy Proper (Grammy winner for surround mastering)
Blu-ray authoring by MSM Studios/Munich. MSM invented the Pure Audio System
Surround and 2 channel mixes in high resolution. First release of 2 channel masters in high resolution!

Resolutions (2)

• 2.0 LPCM 24bit/192kHz
• 5.1 DTS HD MA 24bit/96kHz

Tracks

1. Touch Of Trash
2. Winter
3. You & The Night & The Music
4. Constantinople
5. Light My Fire
6. Silent Partner
7. Company
8. Let It Rain
9. She's A Lady
10. Love Put On Your Faces
11. Postmodern Blues
12. Let It Rain (Vamp)

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