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Recent comments

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, ...

Liszt: Dante Symphony - Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Gergely Madaras | Gurkensalat - Today 02:34 am

I just want to take this opportunity to express my joy that BIS is still releasing lots of recordings, and on multichannel SA-CD, too. After Robert von Bahr sold the company ...

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 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 | 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 ...

Cello Abbey - Rochat / Meyer | Andreas - October 11, 2026

I just acquired a copy of this SACD. The interpretation is a good one and and the sound is very successful, but the disc was hardly recorded in DSD (which the review seems to ...

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. ...

The Who: Tommy | analogue - September 26, 2026

Hello: I took a chance and purchased this version of Tommy. I will keep this review short suffice it to say that as with Live at Leeds.....I was not overly impressed. I do ...

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