First off, I've been hearing Tapestry songs since the AM clock radio and the stereo eight-track, right from the beginning. Imagine my disappointment with the Q8 "quad" mix that was smeared in reverb like Vick's Vaporub. Even at 14, I knew it was a disaster.
Holding my breath, I played the Tapestry SACD multi-channel mix and it was a pleasant surprise. It sounds like properly implemented quad that I should have heard in 1972 with the Q8 debacle. Always full, never obvious, should please most folks into surround music.
52nd Street was one of those records that was so popular(or so I was thinking at the time). So I was very familiar with the nice hits and pleased with the balance of tracks that were unfamiliar (thus new to me).
Great mix as was his previous release on SACD, The Stranger. I would say this turned out better than a heyday quad mix myself, plenty of interplay, solid placement, great engineering.
This brings my total SACD count to five, which fills up my SACD changer. So now Sony just needs to get on the ball with more multi-channel SACDs, then a Mega-Changer. Oh and then a head unit for vehicles. And then a Walk-On-Clouds-Man for portable SACD listening........
Holding my breath, I played the Tapestry SACD multi-channel mix and it was a pleasant surprise. It sounds like properly implemented quad that I should have heard in 1972 with the Q8 debacle. Always full, never obvious, should please most folks into surround music.
52nd Street was one of those records that was so popular(or so I was thinking at the time). So I was very familiar with the nice hits and pleased with the balance of tracks that were unfamiliar (thus new to me).
Great mix as was his previous release on SACD, The Stranger. I would say this turned out better than a heyday quad mix myself, plenty of interplay, solid placement, great engineering.
This brings my total SACD count to five, which fills up my SACD changer. So now Sony just needs to get on the ball with more multi-channel SACDs, then a Mega-Changer. Oh and then a head unit for vehicles. And then a Walk-On-Clouds-Man for portable SACD listening........