Having been sorely disappointed with the The Police SACD, I ordered Hotel California. There are some others I'd love to get, but everything is no longer in print and the market for used/NOS ones is expensive [note: If there's no demand, hence why printing stopped, how do they sell for so much].
Anyway. The guitars opened up at the beginning of the Titular song and I got excited. The DR wasn't super high, but there was interesting positioning going on and the recording was solid... then the vocals came... out the LR speaker evenly and not out the center. Once again: they just copied the stereo mix and it was terrible [hint: if you have one singer, they should be in one place, and that one place should not be "both left and right of you without being in front"].
When I sampled some other songs from the CD, I didn't even find a repeat of the opening. It sounded like the stereo mix [and indeed: the vocals don't sound as well recorded as the instruments].
I'm beginning to think I'm going to be forced into buying records for DR (which I'll likely immediately rip) and not finding MCh at all. Well crap!
On the up side: I'm *this close* to getting streaming MCh working.