SPOTLIGHT Sony Japan 7" Mini-LP Hybrid SACD Series - Comprehensive List of Multichannel Titles
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I'm not surprised at all. They are all fairly recent, price tags are exceptionally high, MFSL did some of them on SACD, and US retailers did not get some of them at all. Without some US sellers stocking them, sales will be slower.
I don't think that the prices are high at all. Back in the seventies Quad albums were selling for about $8.00 each a dollar more than the stereo version. Convert that to todays money $34.00 each has got to be a bargain for sure!
Japanese SACDs at $50+ a pop is not $34 last time I compared. But if they are only $34, I’ll take Live Evil and Lotus please!
Live Evil is $38.40. Lotus is sold out. Lotus has only audience in the rear so not really worth it anyway. Copies of Lotus on Discogs $50 and up. Shipping tends to be the killer!
Owen Smith
900 Club - QQ All-Star
They're considerably cheaper for me than anything from specialist US sellers like Acoustic Solutions, since US sellers double the price with shipping to the UK.
But it's the only (to my knowledge) physical format that has the complete set list over the two nights, and it's an extra c.35 minutes of the Caravanserai tour done live (not to mention the incredible packaging). I've loved the original Lotus release since my (then) girlfriend's brother got the vinyl when it first came out (getting "Japanese-only" releases seemed to be easy in Oz back in the 70s, if you knew the right import stores). Plus, I must say that the Involve SM.v3 gives a brilliant rendering of a quad mix, and the rears come alive with just as much happening as the fronts.
I regard this album as a masterpiece of jazz fusion, and don't tell Sony, but I would have happily paid triple what they asked for this 3-SACD release.
Thanks for this heads-up! I ordered Abraxas and III today.
The decoded SQ does sounds better than the discrete with more sound from the rear. Involve (QS mode) should throw even more to the rear.
Just a thought but with the discrete mix you could decode the fronts and add the decoded rear channels to the back. Or listen with front and sides decoded plus the original backs to the rear.
Copies of Lotus on Amazon Japan :
Amazon.co.jp: ロータスの伝説 完全版 -HYBRID 4.0-(完全生産限定盤): Music
Amazon.co.jp: ロータスの伝説 完全版 -HYBRID 4.0-(完全生産限定盤): Music
www.amazon.co.jp
Colin London
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Better ArtCarlos Santana & Buddy Miles Live! SACD 4.0/2.0ch [Limited Edition] [Cardboard Sleeve (7 inch)]
Release Date : 2022/09/21
Number : SICP-10141
EAN : 4547366571844
but the same SACD Hybrid 4 Channel SACD came out from the UK Dutton Production 2020 made in Austria in
the old Sony Factory
They added Buddy Miles Second SACD Hybrid 4 Channel SACD from Nov.1973
So it is a 2 SACD Set
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Owen Smith
900 Club - QQ All-Star
Too expensive for my tastes, especially given the underwhelming reports of the quad mix.
Er, pardon my ignorance, but are you saying it's a better surround representation if I listened to the album by switching from "4(.1) Involve" to "4(.1) SQ" on the SM? If so, should I be expecting more in the rears, and that's the point of switching it?
SQ is the proper way to decode it (SQ/stereo version). The applause will stay mostly in the rear like the discrete. Because matrix can't separate the channels as well as discreet there will be some leakage from front to rear. In this case that leakage improves the subjective quality of the mix.
I would expect more rear output in QS mode but the positioning of the applause will be more of a crapshoot.
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