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Released July 2026 - Spectral Matching Mastering
Twenty Years in the Making...
Recorded In 2001 in San Francisco! Mastered In Hawaii in 2026!
Released July 2026...Spectral Matching Mastering
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New Release 2025. Originally Recorded in 2000!
David Elias - The Once & Future Times (Boulder, 2000) - Notes & Lyrics (Click Here for PDF) -----
Read the story behind the release of this landmark year 2000 recording by Gus Skinas of David Elias solo acoustic (Decca Tree microphone setup) direct from mic preamps to hand built early DSD ADC converters made by Ed Meitner and into an early prototype standalone Sony DSD 2-track archive DSD recorder! The original purpose behind Sony's + Philip's work with DSD was to find the absolute best method to digitally archive the disintegrating acetate tape Vault Masters in the Sony archive. Gus & David took an experimental step in Boulder, 2000 to see what the recorder would sound like capturing a live studio singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar, voice and harmonica. Gus used 3 special condenser mics arranged in the traditional Decca Tree setup and David played his songs that Ed Meitner's novel and iconic DSD Analog-to-Digital (ADC) converters used 1-bit Sigma Delta conversion from analog as stereo (2-track) input to the non-commercial Sony DSD recorder.
Now 25 years later (released 2025), David Elias mastered the Sony SBM (Super Bit Mapped) conversion of those early .DSD (not .DSD) audio files to .WAV as provided straight off the recorder. These are now released as Downloads (16/44.1k FLAC) from the David Elias Music Store (davideliasmusic.com) and from his Bandcamp webpage (davidelias.bandcamp.com).
When you listen to them streaming from davideliasmusic.com or davidelias.com you are hearing the 100% lossless, uncompressed audio from the mastered .FLAC. It is not a lossy streaming as provided through Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, and most other streaming services. It is the original intact (i,e., best-sounding) stream possible, no different from the sound quality of the download itself. 1.07 MB
Now 25 years later (released 2025), David Elias mastered the Sony SBM (Super Bit Mapped) conversion of those early .DSD (not .DSD) audio files to .WAV as provided straight off the recorder. These are now released as Downloads (16/44.1k FLAC) from the David Elias Music Store (davideliasmusic.com) and from his Bandcamp webpage (davidelias.bandcamp.com).
When you listen to them streaming from davideliasmusic.com or davidelias.com you are hearing the 100% lossless, uncompressed audio from the mastered .FLAC. It is not a lossy streaming as provided through Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, and most other streaming services. It is the original intact (i,e., best-sounding) stream possible, no different from the sound quality of the download itself. 1.07 MB
The Once & Future Times (Boulder, 2000) -- First Release 2025
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New Release - The Once & Future Times (Boulder, 2000)
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