Post by Edvin March 31, 2006 (1 of 9)
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Donald Fagen´s latest album, Morph the Cat, comes in a special edition containing a DVD-Audio in high rez. Dolby and DTS. 96kHz/24, 5.1 as well as stereo. It´s a marvellous album. Fagen actually tours in 5.1 now.
This site is for SACD, I know, so spare me the grumpy comments.
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Post by Paul April 1, 2006 (2 of 9)
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This site is for SACD, I know, so spare me the grumpy comments.
I am a big SD/Donald Fagen fan; I looked immediately for an SACD when I heard he had a new disc out and was bummed to find only DVD-A since I do not have a player. I wound up ordering the RBCD instead. Now that Gaucho looks to be discontinued I doubt the rest of the SD catalogue will be offered in SACD either.
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Edvin said:
Donald Fagen´s latest album, Morph the Cat, comes in a special edition containing a DVD-Audio in high rez. Dolby and DTS. 96kHz/24, 5.1 as well as stereo. It´s a marvellous album. Fagen actually tours in 5.1 now.
This site is for SACD, I know, so spare me the grumpy comments.
Avaivable on vinyl too. Mastered by Steve Hoffman. Donald was very pleased with the result and approved the first test pressing.
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Post by 51surr April 2, 2006 (4 of 9)
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Sounds like a follow up to Nightfly. Surround mix is quite nice even if it is DVD-A. At least it is surround
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Post by Timpani April 4, 2006 (5 of 9)
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51surr said:
Sounds like a follow up to Nightfly. Surround mix is quite nice even if it is DVD-A. At least it is surround
I'm a 2ch man myself so I'll never hear the 5.1 mix but the stereo mix is pretty good and definitely better than the standard RB. There's just a little more audio level processing going on than I would like and that's unlike Fagen. On the plus though it's the best album you'll hear this year. It's a musical masterpiece.
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Post by paolo g June 2, 2006 (6 of 9)
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I read in the latest issue of HiFi Plus magazine that a studio in Holland are working on some SACD masters for Donald Fagen. I hope that means that there will be a new release.
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Post by terence June 2, 2006 (7 of 9)
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thanks for the info edvin, sounds like a necessary purchase.
it DOES however re-activate my melancholy concerning the continuing non-availability of steely dan albums on multichannel.
will they really NEVER be released in MC format?!
it's almost too depressing to contemplate, so i'll try not to contemplate it....
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Post by terence June 4, 2006 (8 of 9)
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Timpani said:
There's just a little more audio level processing going on than I would like and that's unlike Fagen.
what is "audio level processing"?
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Post by synthy June 4, 2006 (9 of 9)
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terence said:
what is "audio level processing"?
He might mean compression? Not the data rate, but the dynamics of individual elements or the whole mix itself.
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