If you missed out on the Sony version, here's your chance....
http://www.elusivedisc.com/Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters-SACD/productinfo/APSA084/
http://www.elusivedisc.com/Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters-SACD/productinfo/APSA084/
If you missed out on the Sony version, here's your chance....
http://www.elusivedisc.com/Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters-SACD/productinfo/APSA084/
Unfortunately this version, unlike some of the Sony Music US and Sony Music Japan editions, does not include Multichannel SACD tracks.
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/589
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1850
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/4815
Not shooting the messenger but what a damn waste of time a Headhunters SACD reissue is without the Quad mix included.
I can't imagine Analogue Productions haven't looked up from their newspaper and seen Audio Fidelity cleaning up with their Surround SACDs.. I'm surprised with some of the Sony back catalogue AP have been accessing they haven't similarly chosen to follow suit and go the Multichannel SACD Quad route, after all it's not as if they have their heads up their backsides with regard to Surround the way MFSL do..maybe they're not interested in making more money..
Not shooting the messenger but what a damn waste of time a Headhunters SACD reissue is without the Quad mix included.
I can't imagine Analogue Productions haven't looked up from their newspaper and seen Audio Fidelity cleaning up with their Surround SACDs.. I'm surprised with some of the Sony back catalogue AP have been accessing they haven't similarly chosen to follow suit and go the Multichannel SACD Quad route, after all it's not as if they have their heads up their backsides with regard to Surround the way MFSL do..maybe they're not interested in making more money..
Maybe they're just not open to Quadraphonic mixes on SACD.
All of the surround SACDs released from them have been 5.1 surround mixes:
-Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
-Roger Waters "Amused to Death"
-Norah Jones "Come Away With Me"
-The Doors' Classic 6
Everything else is either mono, stereo, or 3-channel (LCR)
Maybe they're just cheap ass or bone idle, either way trading on the work of others.. all those 5.1's were already released in other formats/configurations by other labels, all the remixing work was done and paid for by those other labels.. to add insult to injury most of the non-AP editions are still available now for sensible money even though most are out of print.. arguably most are not even the finest examples of modern multichannel mixing, they've most probably been chosen for the exceptional 5.1 AP treatment purely for reasons of "marketing strategy"... Money money money.. (yes they're a business but a speciality label that's dabbling in Multichannel while not delivering is a poor show imho) could anyone here say Norah Jones, The Doors, WYWH, AMTD are showcase absolute must hear surround music mixes?
You've not mentioned the Nat King Cole AP SACDs, RT (and I totally appreciate why!) but the Nat King Cole's are exceptional and easily the best MultiCh SACD things from Analogue Productions I've ever heard.. they are 3-channel so while they are Multichannel they are not, of course, surround but for my money that doesn't detract from their brilliance, they almost undo all the half-baked shit they've produced in MultiCh of rehashed Brubeck, Norah Jones, etc..
Maybe they're just cheap ass or bone idle, either way trading on the work of others.. all those 5.1's were already released in other formats/configurations by other labels, all the remixing work was done and paid for by those other labels.. to add insult to injury most of the non-AP editions are still available now for sensible money even though most are out of print.. arguably most are not even the finest examples of modern multichannel mixing, they've most probably been chosen for the exceptional 5.1 AP treatment purely for reasons of "marketing strategy"... Money money money.. (yes they're a business but a speciality label that's dabbling in Multichannel while not delivering is a poor show imho) could anyone here say Norah Jones, The Doors, WYWH, AMTD are showcase absolute must hear surround music mixes?
You've not mentioned the Nat King Cole AP SACDs, RT (and I totally appreciate why!) but the Nat King Cole's are exceptional and easily the best MultiCh SACD things from Analogue Productions I've ever heard.. they are 3-channel so while they are Multichannel they are not, of course, surround but for my money that doesn't detract from their brilliance, they almost undo all the half-baked shit they've produced in MultiCh of rehashed Brubeck, Norah Jones, etc..
I didn't mention the Nat King Cole SACDs because they are 3-channel and listed as such on the Acoustic Sounds website.
All of the ones I mentioned are listed on the AS site as Multichannel Surround SACDs, as opposed to 3-channel, stereo, etc.
I don't like the way AF markets their products. They purposely hold back stuff, so their members can get them first. Then the audiophile retailers get them next. Then the discounters get them later. Then they want members to buy ridiculous junk like those last two aborted multichannel titles than came out in stereo instead. They want me to pay for Riding With The King before they will mail out the latest multichannel titles. Screw 'em. I cancelled once again.- 15 MultiChannel titles released in 12 months,
- and near universal praise in reviews and in forums such as QQ, sa-cd.net, Steve Hoffman forum etc.,
- with more Multichannel titles already announced to come in the weeks ahead..
I don't know how this Surround SACD enterprise from Audio Fidelity can be seen as anything other than a triumph.
Audio Fidelity are a business not a charity, we're a full calendar year and 15 releases in now, if these things weren't selling wouldn't the programme have faltered by now?
I don't like the way AF markets their products. They purposely hold back stuff, so their members can get them first. Then the audiophile retailers get them next. Then the discounters get them later. Then they want members to buy ridiculous junk like those last two aborted multichannel titles than came out in stereo instead. They want me to pay for Riding With The King before they will mail out the latest multichannel titles. Screw 'em. I cancelled once again.
Am I missing something here? Did Analogue Productions/Acoustic Sounds change its course on this SACD without any of us noticing?
Look at what it now says on their website: http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/104679/Herbie_Hancock-Head_Hunters-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD
"A defining masterpiece of jazz funk, now on Hybrid Multichannel SACD!
Includes the original Stereo & Quadraphonic (4.0 Surround) Mixes!
Mastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan Smith"
Arrival Date is Still To Be Announced though...
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