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Morten Lindberg, one single mission reproduce the Emotion of music for the album of Trio Mediaeval – YULE – Review – (Test: CD, SACD, vinyl, blu-ray)

Jean.Francois

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Hello,

The release of Trio Mediaeval’s album “YULE” gives me the opportunity to introduce you to sound engineer Morten Lindberg. Morten Lindberg’s aim is to convey the emotion of the music by literally plunging us into the heart of it.
To achieve this, Morten Lindberg works in a special way, recording in 7.1.4 with a system of 12 microphones placed at the heart of the musicians, singers or orchestra. The microphone array is really a copy of the speaker configuration in the immersive playback systems.

Trio Mediaeval - YULE - SMALL v2.jpg


The release of Trio Mediaeval’s album “YULE” gives me the opportunity to introduce you to sound engineer Morten Lindberg. Morten Lindberg’s aim is to convey the emotion of the music by literally plunging us into the heart of it.
To achieve this, Morten Lindberg works in a special way, recording in 7.1.4 with a system of 12 microphones placed at the heart of the musicians, singers or orchestra. The microphone array is really a copy of the speaker configuration in the immersive playback systems.



Morten Lindberg doesn’t hesitate to use the DXD format for a 7.1.4 recording with 24-bit 352 kHz sampling frequencies.

Morten Lindberg and his label 2l.no also think in terms of offering maximum quality and formats to satisfy the most demanding of listeners. This album features “YULE”:

  • The blu-ray and SACD combo:
    • SACD stereo and 5.1
    • Blu-ray :
      • 5.1 DTS-HD MA 24/192kHz
      • 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos 48kHz
      • 2.0 LPCM 24/192kHz
      • 7.1.4 Auro-3D 96kHz
      • BDROM version in stereo FLAC 24/196.4kHz, MQA FLAC 24 bits 44.1 kHz (352.8 kHz in MQA), MP3
  • The vinyl record
The album is also available in the downloading formats: all formats present on the blu-ray plus 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos ADM (Master), 7.1.4 in wav format in 24 bit 88.2 kHz and also in DXD 24 bit 352.8 kHz.

No problem with loudness war for this album, as the waveform below shows.
Waveform - Trio Mediaeval - YULE - BDROM Stereo - small .jpg


Morten Lindberg succeeds in conveying all the emotion of the “YULE” album, plunging us right into the heart of the music. Everything is done to bring out the best in the technical side of things, with the use of the DXD format in 7.1.4 and a recording without mixing or effects, but all this technical mastery is forgotten as we immerse ourselves in the music with a naturalness (whether on vocals or instruments) and a realism that’s astounding, really immersing us in the place where the recording took place. If you can listen to version 7.1.4, it will bring you the most complete immersion, but it should also be noted that the downmixes are also very successful and respect the original recording. An experience worth discovering.


You can find samples of the different media from stereo to Dolby Atmos to discover the work carried out, as well as the full analysis (waveform, spectrogram, Dynamc Range, spatialization...) HERE.


Enjoy listening,
Jean-François
 
Finally, a way to feel the emotion when listening to music

Thank you Mr. Lindberg!
 
I listened to this via streaming on a 4.0 system with ok good bass reproduction. I enjoyed it very much, both the technical aspects and the music.
 
Morton has been doing this for a while with many excellent recordings covering a wide range of musical content.
 
Morton has been doing this for a while with many excellent recordings covering a wide range of musical conteI am
Right! 2L label, for those who don’t know.


Aside: one of the perennial issues is finding the confluence of well-engineered recordings, with good performances, of music that I like. Most of the time not all of these constraints can be met.
 
Right! 2L label, for those who don’t know.


Aside: one of the perennial issues is finding the confluence of well-engineered recordings, with good performances, of music that I like. Most of the time not all of these constraints can be met.
Yes and, for me, the Trio Mediaeval has worn out its welcome already. However, there's lot of other good stuff.
 
Yes and, for me, the Trio Mediaeval has worn out its welcome already. However, there's lot of other good stuff.
So much music, so little time.

Where are the good multichannel music reviews these days, by the way? I’m interested in the technical aspects that I enjoy reading your old columns for the music mentions….

Edit to add: of course the MagicVinylDigital site and qudraphonicquad, although browsing the latter is offputting to me, given how ads are integrated.
 
subscribing.
But, l think multich might be one thing that kicks me over into buying a streaming account. Probably Apple Music.
I’ve moved over to Apple Music for this reason. (Had it anyway for family.)

I just get the bed channels downmixed to 4.0 but very satisfied so far. I can look into buying downloads or discs of lossless multichannel in the future, though I will likely never have height speakers and therefore don’t need full Atmos. But glad it exists so I can benefit.

In the end, though, the music comes first, and I always just check if something I like has a new or old surround mix as a bonus.

For classical, the situation is different, since there are often various recordings of the same works; I will seek out Atmos recordings to compare.
 
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