Aside from the usual suspects, I'd really like to see Audio Fidelity shift into 5th Gear, and get more aggressive with both their release schedule, and their choices. When I think of the potential goldmines out there not jealously guarded by the major giants, it's frustrating. I continue to believe that, were the projects chosen not just for their adjacency to some over-released artists' bigger record from the '70s, but rather on the revelation a cleaner exposure to multichannel music could make for opening up the albums themselves to further scrutiny, I feel that the titles themselves could make the case for digging deeper into the vaults.
Thanks, overlords of obvious, we've already heard Pet Sounds, Chicago II and Tubular Bells...before you start preparing the same damn titles for their inevitable re-release in Dolby Atmos...howabout let's try some other artists before their most passionate fans have to shift their budgeting from re-acquiring their old favorites, to shoring-up their renegotiated Medicare coverage!
Sometimes I get the feeling that some of these labels are now just sitting on their quad (and in come cases, 5.1) mixes, purely out of embarrassment that they didn't jump in back when it might have made a difference ("Dave Clark Syndrome", anyone?).
What I wouldn't give for the industry to try building up a head of steam all on their own, instead of relying on Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson and Marshall Blonstein to do their job for them...(so, yeah, for 2017, I predict these people will just end up having to do more of that.).