Thread: 21 new SHM-SACDs for December 2014 release….Lennon, The Band, Beach Boys

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Post by Espen R October 16, 2014 (1 of 21)
UIGY-9651 The Beach Boys- Shut Down, Vol. 2
UIGY-9652 The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
UIGY-9653 The Beach Boys - Today!
UIGY-9654 The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
UIGY-9655 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
UIGY-9656 The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile

UIGY-9657 The Band - Music From Big Pink
UIGY-9658 The Band - The Band
UIGY-9659 The Band - Stage Fright
UIGY-9660 The Band - Cahoots
UIGY-9661 The Band - Rock of Ages
UIGY-9662 The Band - Moondog Matinee
UIGY-9663 The Band - Norther Lights - Southern Cross
UIGY-9664 The Band - Islands

UIGY-9644 John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
UIGY-9645 John Lennon - Imagine
UIGY-9646 John Lennon - Sometime in NY
UIGY-9647 John Lennon - Mind Games
UIGY-9648 John Lennon - Walls and Bridges
UIGY-9649 John Lennon - Rock'n Roll
UIGY-9650 John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy

Post by Espen R October 16, 2014 (2 of 21)
For The Band and Beach Boys, at this time it seems that it will be " DSD flat transfers from original US analogue master tapes".

For the Lennon catalog, it is not clear what it will be.

Post by jacek2 October 16, 2014 (3 of 21)
Nothing for me ....

Post by Alexandre October 16, 2014 (4 of 21)
Great news.

Thanks for the information, Espen R.

Post by Polly Nomial October 16, 2014 (5 of 21)
According to CD Japan, the Lennon remasters are from 2010.

Post by rammiepie October 16, 2014 (6 of 21)
Polly Nomial said:

According to CD Japan, the Lennon remasters are from 2010.

Not to be contradictory but the Lennon SHM~SACDs are based on the 2010 'digital' remasters and NOT from the original analogue sources as are the Band and Beach Boys SHM~SACD reissues (BOTH BASED ON 2014 DSD TRANSFERS from the US original analogue master tapes)

Post by Astral October 16, 2014 (7 of 21)
rammiepie said:

Not to be contradictory but the Lennon SHM~SACDs are based on the 2010 'digital' remasters and NOT from the original analogue sources as are the Band and Beach Boys SHM~SACD reissues (BOTH BASED ON 2014 DSD TRANSFERS from the US original analogue master tapes)

To be even more direct, the Lennon are sourced from the 24/96 files - the Yoko Ono remixes, which were IMO excellent. But they are available in their original PCM state from a variety of download stores now, much cheaper than a SHM-SACD, and that from where I sit makes the SACD redundant.

I suspect the Beach Boys is a different story, these may well be transfers from analog to DSD done for the aborted AP series.

Post by Espen R October 17, 2014 (8 of 21)
Astral said:

To be even more direct, the Lennon are sourced from the 24/96 files - the Yoko Ono remixes, which were IMO excellent.

Wrong.

All the 2010 CD editions was sourced from ORIGINAL mixes, not Yoko Ono remixes.
And they were probably transferred to 24 bit 192 KHz, because they were done by the same team at Abbey Road studios that did the new Beatles transfers.

Post by Kutyatest October 18, 2014 (9 of 21)
Well I'm interested in all of those Beach Boys SACDs, and possibly the John Lennon "Imagine" album.

A real pity that they're all non-hybrids with stereo-only audio option, and in probably silly cardboard sleeves, but I guess I shouldn't be too fussy. Wherever the audio is sourced from, I just hope they're going to sound good.

Post by Astral October 18, 2014 (10 of 21)
Espen R said:

Wrong.

All the 2010 CD editions was sourced from ORIGINAL mixes, not Yoko Ono remixes.
And they were probably transferred to 24 bit 192 KHz, because they were done by the same team at Abbey Road studios that did the new Beatles transfers.

Right, they are the original mixes.

The practice on Beatles related catalog at Abbey Road seems to be transfers the master tapes at 24/192 for archival purposes, load that file into Pro Tools for mastering, then transfer to the Sadie workstation at 24/96. So in fact, the file that comes out of Abbey Road is 24/96.

That would be the case with the Lennon transfers, as it was with The Beatles transfers. Master tapes archived at 24/192, mastering at 24/96, finished product only exists at 24/96.

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