Crystal Disc CD: Kind of Blue

MILES DAVIS – KIND OF BLUE
CRYSTAL DISC • AUDIONAUTES RECORDINGS • MADE IN JAPAN

How far would you go for the ultimate version of one of the most important jazz albums ever recorded?

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue hardly needs an introduction. But for serious audiophiles and collectors, the format can make the experience feel completely different.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue On Crystal Disc CD - Glass CD - Limited Edition 

Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on August 17, 1959 through Columbia Records. For the recording, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly appearing on one track "Freddie Freeloader" instead of Evans. The album was recorded in two sessions on March 2 and April 22, 1959, at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

This premium AudioNautes Recordings Crystal Disc edition is presented as being sourced from original analog master tapes and manufactured in Japan, with the aim of delivering exceptional clarity, musical presence and refinement.

Featuring:

Miles Davis
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
John Coltrane
Bill Evans
Wynton Kelly
Paul Chambers
Jimmy Cobb

Tracklist:

1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue in Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches

For collectors, the big question is:

Would you choose a premium Crystal Disc edition like this over an original vinyl pressing, a modern audiophile LP, SACD, UHQCD or reel-to-reel tape?

And when listening to Kind of Blue, what matters most to you — absolute detail, analogue warmth, dynamics, tonal realism, soundstage, or simply the emotional connection to the performance?

A true audiophile classic — and a fascinating title for comparing what different physical formats can achieve.

Crystal Disc Features:

• Superior Crystal Sound
• Ultimate High-Quality Sound CD
• Crystal Disc CD
• Limited Edition
• Made in Japan

About Crystal Disc

A Crystal Disc is a CD made of a special kind of glass. It is very expensive, but sounds great and is crystal clear! This is the CD which can provide as close as the original master.

Crystal disc, manufactured by the largest CD factory in Japan - Memory Tech Corporation, is a revolutionary Compact Disc using glass substrate instead of polycarbonate. This newly developed technology allows sound reproduction at a level previously unknown and is as close to the master sound source as cutting-edge technology allows. For this purpose, Crystal disc is fabricated by our Laser Disc technology cultivated over many years using the best-selected materials.

■　The use of glass substrate instead of conventional polycarbonate substrate. As the reflective layer, gold is adopted in exchange for conventional aluminium.

■　For pit transcription, Photo Polymerization process(2P process) using a metal stamper is adopted. This process makes pit transcription highly precise compared with the conventional injection moulding process. The technology of the 2P process was cultivated by our production of test discs for calibrating industrial optical pickup heads.

■　Surface flatness of the glass substrate is much superior to the conventional CD. Glass substrate is hardly influenced by the variation of temperature and humidity. Furthermore, the absence of birefringence coming from the optical uniformity of the glass substrate realized a signal with extremely low noise and low jitter.

Crystal Disc CD Series: The Ultimate High-Quality Sound By AudioNautes Recordings, the label started with the purpose of offering the very best version of some favourite (sometimes almost unknown or forgotten) recordings.

Innovative Technology Manufacturing High-Quality Compact Disc

This newly developed technology allows sound reproduction at a level previously unknown and is as close to the master sound source as cutting-edge technology allows. For this purpose, the Crystal Disc CD is fabricated by our Laser Disc technology cultivated over many years using the best-selected materials.

Experience of Master Sound: the best high-quality compact discs: Crystal Disc CD, Ultimate Hi-Quality CD (UHQCD), the next level of Hi-Quality CD (HQCDII), Analog Quality CD (AQCD) and MQA-CD.

Manufactured and Made in Japan. Japanese Import - Crystal Disc CD. Crystal Glass Discs are developed and manufactured by Japan Memory-Tech Co., Ltd.

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