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Miles Davis: Kind of Blue | Mark Werlin - October 1, 2026

A fellow site member kindly allowed me to audition the Hemiolia SACD for review purposes. Based on listening and comparing waveforms, I now think the Hemiolia SACD was ...

In Motion - Andreas Mader & Friends | Adrian Quanjer - September 29, 2026

On several occasions, others and I have expressed concern about the continuity of SACD. Times change, everybody is in a hurry, ears are blocked by daily noise, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ives: Symphonies 2 & 3 - Litton | Contrapunctus - September 14, 2026

What left a lasting impression on me while listening to this SACD is the incredible depth and transparency of both the orchestral sound and the soundstage. At least through ...

The Who: Live At Leeds | analogue - September 26, 2026

Hello. Always a huge fan of this album and was awaiting its sacd release. Cant say I was overwhelmed but all is not lost. I was forewarned as to deficiencies' with the tape ...

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

I have both sacds Hemiolia & SME SICP-10083 and for my ears they sound almost the same (there are minor differences). I like them both. I also have HDtracks (24/192) release ...

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