Maybe because no mastering engineer dude-o operates QQ.Hey, how is it QQ isn't listed? SH forum is. WTF!
Maybe because no mastering engineer dude-o operates QQ.Hey, how is it QQ isn't listed? SH forum is. WTF!
I'm all for surround but why this need to rerelease DVD-A on SACD? Is there a real need I am not seeing? Is SACD so good now (since it's development stopped a decade ago) that our DVD-A's are sonically obsolete? Or are they giving the SACD another go around? Seems like the silliest format to be releasing music in today. I have SACDs. I like SACDs. That doesn't mean I get why they are still being produced. Particularly with titles that have been released to death. Is anyone really expecting to hear some detail they never heard before with this release? Will the cymbals have a slightly different decay? I mean really there is not much left to do with a 40 or 50 year old recording once you've upsampled, re-re-re-remastered it to absurdity...Can I just get some albums by someone who isn't dead or who's last good album wasn't released at some point in the 70's?
I won't rebuy them, since I have the Perception DVD-A box with the peep hole. I prefer DVD-A. It is technically superior.
I guess the only other thing I might add is that my impression was that the surviving Doors were involved with the production of the DVD-A's. That would sorta make it the definitive version to some extent. I like the work that AP has done--don't get me wrong. It just seems a strange thing.
There is one other HUGE reason for releasing Doors on individual MC SACD's: LA Woman was the only one that was available individually. It gives people who want to buy them in dribs and drabs a chance to acquire them. Likewise, anyone who doesn't want them all (perish the thought!) can buy only those that they want.
The wonderful thing about WYWH, Doors, Nat King Cole and Ray Charles MC titles from AP is that there is new product being released in MC. Those and the premium boxes released last year prove that MC is far from dead. That is the best news I've heard in a long time.
The announcement from Analogue Productions indicated that Bruce Botnick, engineer/producer for the Doors, would be overseeing this SACD and Vinyl LP reissue series that would be mastered by legendary mastering engineer Doug Sax.
That's reason enough to consider buying the new SACDs right there. Bruce Botnick knew how to get the best out of the Doors in the studio so perhaps he also knows how to get the best out of the Doors' old tapes.
I'd like to see them add Full Circle and Best Of (in original quad)to their upcoming SACD list (skip the vinyl).
Now it is all 6. Not just 4.
http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/83212/The_Doors-The_Doors_Box_Set-Hybrid_SACD
All 6 albums on SACD disc - but only 4 in SACD Multichannel Surround Sound.
I'm confused, and I'm not even blonde! Acoustic Sounds lists Morrison Hotel & Soft Parade as stereo SACD, yet they list all 6 as MC within the box set. That seems truly odd. Are the two really stereo, or is that a misprint? Time will tell?
I think it's a typo. The original announcement talked about 4 MC SACDs and 2 Stereo SACDs. I doubt the box set will have different SACDs for the two albums available separately as Stereo SACDs.
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