Doobie Brothers 4 song promo EP for concertgoers CD
Dang! This was when their relationship was at their most fragile--- I read Ben's book (IN SPANISH!) and it was an eye opener , he REALLY was walking wounded!Met Ben & Tracy on that tour. Great album!
Love Garnet Mimms….Zeppelin used to do a ripping version of As Long I Have You. I think the San Francisco 4-27-69 version is the best. Check it out if so inclined.Super excited about this one.
I found the title track via my old vinyl bootleg of that very Zep concert, in fact! Love it!Love Garnet Mimms….Zeppelin used to do a ripping version of As Long I Have You. I think the San Francisco 4-27-69 version is the best. Check it out if so inclined.
Great cache of MQA CDs, Markie. Interested whether the SONY SACD QUAD remix of BIRDS of FIRE corrected the channel screw~up on Audio Fidelity's QUAD SACD.Today arrived a pile of MQA discs and one SACD. Wish I had time to listen.
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From steelydave's comments posted in the Birds of Fire Thread on September 9th:I will try but I am not good at telling when there is corrected or inverted phase.
He doesn't seem to be a AF fan?From steelydave's comments posted in the Birds of Fire Thread on September 9th:
The problem actually lies with AF's decision not to master the quad layer of their SACDs, except for in a handful of instances. A kind of orthodoxy seems to have sprung up from the Hoffman forums that says "flat transfers are the best!" and while I'd take a flat transfer over an overly-compressed / smiley-face EQed mastering, flat transfers have their own issues (which most of the AF discs exhibit) from a flat and lifeless sound (Loggins & Messina self-titled, the two Earth Wind & Fire discs) to downright muddy (Guess Who greatest hits) to channel assignment errors (Birds of Fire, and about half the tracks on the 'The Collection' V/A disc).
I have the AF version of Birds of Fire but I'd gladly re-buy this version as the Sony Japan masterings are considerably better than earlier-issued versions, from Abraxas and Beck, Bogert & Appice (compared to the DTS CDs) to the Jeff Beck Group 'orange album' (compared to the AF SACD). Aside from the channel-assignment error on the AF BoF, it also exhibits some of that lifeless sound (especially in Cobham's drums, which have almost no punch) and I hope/expect the Sony Japan mastering will remedy much of this.
And from poster NYAD August 29th:
There was a lot of talk about the AF release having some of the channels reversed making the panned drums cross the sound field diagonally instead of going round clockwise (or anticlockwise). Hopefully this will be addressed?
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