Joe B
Audioholic Chief
This SACD is "hybrid" but only includes 2 channel playback on both layers. No 5.0 playback. Mobile fidelity currently only has one multichannel SACD in their catalogue.Does this include a 5.1 remix? Wondering how much improvement this is over the original LP?
"Wondering how much improvement this is over the original LP?" I listened to this album hundreds of times back in the early 70's. I wondered how the SACD would sound the first time I played it. I was very impressed. Mobile Fidelity does an awesome job of extracting everything that exists on the original analog master and then capturing that using DSD. The SACD sounds so good you would "almost" think it was recorded digitally in the first place. What blew me away with their mastering was the sound stage. They put the drums right in the middle. I mean RIGHT in the middle. The snare drum is heard from the right, Tom Tom dead center, and floor Tom out of the left speaker. The first time the drummer went from snare to Tom Tom to floor Tom I was shocked. I never remember my LP back in the 70's sounding like that. At any rate, this SACD sounds great.