Hemiolia with Ermitage have recently released an official Master Tape copy of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Coltrane's Blue Train, two huge jazz milestones...but do the sonics really shine or is this just another low-quality marketing operation? Let's find out!
Links:
Hemiolia website: https://www.hemioliarecords.com/it/
Interview with Kai Seemann (mastering issues and licensing costs): https://youtu.be/A405QH55cNk
My Master Tape copy collection: https://youtu.be/2jbjGgw98go
Digital disease (why analog sound better): https://youtu.be/sMFWlvbRYdA
Test files 96Khz/24bit download: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZy8WIVZ7XpswMFjhE7HulyEUcOgOXfKUsyV
Index:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - First info
1:41 - Tapes' story
5:23 - What's in the boxes
12:35 - The Hemiolia productions
19:02 - Kind of Blue test (Hemiolia)
22:11 - Kind of Blue test (Anadialog)
25:12 - Blue Train (Hemiolia)
27:29 - My analysis & conclusions
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