Post by rammiepie September 2, 2011 (21 of 33)
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FunkyMonkey said:
I see RAM man mentioned this up top.
It's worth repeating.....and since you put it so eloquently................
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Dire Straits - Dire Straits, Love Over Gold, Making Movies
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Is There Anybody Out There?, Pulse (AC3 DVD exists), DSOTM Parsons Quad (seriously doubt it will ever come out outside of the Immersion)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Quad R2R & Vinyl exists), Thick as a Brick
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Steely Dan - ALL (Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, and Pretzel Logic quad vinyls exist)
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy, Stand in the Fire
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Post by Tingman September 8, 2011 (23 of 33)
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MattMan - I would like to see everything you mentioned released in multi-channel. Making Movies in particular would be outstanding! I would like to add two Alan Parsons titles to my list:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
I Robot
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Post by danfaz September 8, 2011 (24 of 33)
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davidc2k3 said:
All Depeche Mode remastered SACD is fantastic!
This has been done. Or were you saying [the already] remastered SACDs are fantastic?
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Post by rammiepie September 8, 2011 (25 of 33)
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Tingman said:
MattMan - I would like to see everything you mentioned released in multi-channel. Making Movies in particular would be outstanding! I would like to add two Alan Parsons titles to my list:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
I Robot
I'm really, really surprised (and chagrined) that Alan Parsons who famously mixed some PF albums and released two of his own albums* in 5.1 only in DTS (and DD) has NOT seen fit to re~release his own back catalog (everything, not just the two aforementioned) in 5.1.
Unless, as we speak he is????????????????????
{* A Valid Path: Dualdisc DD/DTS 5.1 and On Air: DTS Entertainment (DTS/5.1.........}
But, at least we do have 3 Alan Parson's albums in Hi~Rez HDAD 96/24 courtesy of Classic Records:
They are: I Robot, Turn of A Friendly Card and Eye In The Sky. All sound amazing but NO 5.1 (stereo, only).
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Post by Nagraboy September 9, 2011 (26 of 33)
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I've said it before, I'll say it again - please give us the Frank Sinatra Capitol Years Boxset in SACD! MCH would be best, but even a Hybrid 2ch set would be a Godsend. A MCH release could really give a feel for the atmosphere in those legendary Capitol studios with The Chairman centre stage!
If it's possible, please do it. I think it's a no-brainer!
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Post by rammiepie September 9, 2011 (27 of 33)
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Nagraboy said:
I've said it before, I'll say it again - please give us the Frank Sinatra Capitol Years Boxset in SACD! MCH would be best, but even a Hybrid 2ch set would be a Godsend. A MCH release could really give a feel for the atmosphere in those legendary Capitol studios with The Chairman centre stage!
If it's possible, please do it. I think it's a no-brainer!
I second (and third) that proposal. Incidentally, was Sinatra recorded in three channel way back then. I know MoFi recently released Only the Lonely in MONO on a Gold RBCD (or were there stereo tracks, as well??)
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Post by Nagraboy September 9, 2011 (28 of 33)
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Only the Lonely is a superb-sounding stereo recording rammie. Possibly Sinatra's best as far as sound quality goes IMO. I have a RBCD version that is unbelievably good through a nice valve amp. I thought the Mo-Fi release was a stereo version. AFAIK, all the Capitol discs were recorded in stereo from Where Are You? (1957) onwards. They even set up the orchestra to emphasise the left-right stereo spread on albums like Come Swing With Me!.
They must give us these historic sessions in SACD from the analogue master tapes!
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Post by rammiepie September 9, 2011 (29 of 33)
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Nagraboy said:
Only the Lonely is a superb-sounding stereo recording rammie. Possibly Sinatra's best as far as sound quality goes IMO. I have a RBCD version that is unbelievably good through a nice valve amp. I thought the Mo-Fi release was a stereo version. AFAIK, all the Capitol discs were recorded in stereo from Where Are You? (1957) onwards. They even set up the orchestra to emphasise the left-right stereo spread on albums like Come Swing With Me!.
They must give us these historic sessions in SACD from the analogue master tapes!
Since Analogue Productions has (or will shortly be) releasing 60 Blue Note SACDs from the Capitol Vaults, I hope they tackle the Capitol Sinatra Project next and should there be three channel masters available, I'm sure they will utilize them. I also have the remastered rbcd stereo version of ONLY THE LONELY and it does sound incredible (via my Meridian SooLoos) but can only imagine what it would sound like if AP utilized the Grimm Audio Converter.
Here's hoping, Nagraboy. Good things are (slowly) happening in the SACD market, albeit at a premium price.
Hunting High and Low.......check out the A~HA Blu~Ray.....I was VERY surprised at the extreme versatility of these three lads from Norway...........VERY surprised!
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Post by diw October 12, 2011 (30 of 33)
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So these Pink Floyd Immersion box sets are a big deal.
In one interview about these releases, Nick Mason made the comment to the effect that this was their last chance to sell the catalog as physical media. Which is clearly true, and points to the future of rock releases.
The industry has latched on to the idea of "prestige" rereleases of classical rock albums, which are premium packaged box sets with a multiple discs. And if you are going to take a rock album which can fit on 1 CD and puff it up to a box set, you have to include a high-rez remastering of the original discs, new unreleased outtakes, live versions of the material, associated video material, and, yes, a high rez/multichannel remaster. They have to cover as many bases as possible, because you want to include something that will lead as many people as possible to purchase a $100 box set of an album they probably already had on vinyl and CD (often more than once). Just in October and November, for example, we will have 2 Pink Floyd boxes, as well as Jethro Tull and the Who releasing such sets.
So we have potential for a trend here. And a real renaissance of high rez and multichannel remasters of rock/pop material. Now of course, the preferred medium will probably be PCM on Blu-Ray (which I would argue is way better than no high rez release at all), but the creation of these remasters does give outfits like AP an opportunity to license and release SACD's like WYWH. So it will be interesting to see how this stuff sells.
Of course, in the jazz world, premium box sets have been around for a while and just on CD. However, rock has very few acts like Charlie Parker or Miles Davis, where fans will pay for box sets with 5 live versions of the same song and will pay to hear them burp on stage or in the studio while recording a classic album:) (The Grateful Dead and the complete Europe 1972 tour box set is probably a notable exception). So I would argue that high rez and multichannel are the keys to the prestige box set marketing strategy, as they allow the companies to justify the pricing through added value.
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