All 9 Steely Dan albums to be released on Hybrid Stereo SACD courtesy of Analogue Productions

[Quadmon]

Only Katy Lied and The Royal Scam for me if we can get them at a reasonable price over here, (my guess is around £45 each by the time they hit the door mat + P&P). I have the other early ones on Japanese SACDs. But what I really want is them all in surround

I doubt I’ll get any of them. Already have the Citizen box, the three Q8 tapes, Gaucho, and TAG and EMG on cd. I’ll also wait for more surround releases.

 

[jaybird100]

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This should be in hybrid multichannel.

 

[jaybird100]

Wish I could elicit a bit of excitement but I have a lot of those titles either on Universal's STEREO SHM~SACDs and/or multi~CH DVD~A and SACD. Another missed opportunity for AP by not including the existing multi~CH mixes!

Universal's SHM~SACD of PRETZEL LOGIC even comes in one of their nifty little boxes

This should be in hybrid multichannel.

 

[Perp]

$150 is a lot for the vinyl of AJA but if I was going to spend that much money on one Steely Dan album, that LP would be the one.

 

[JimHansonDC]

Give me a 5.1 mix of Aja or quit wasting my time.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Why this enthusiasm for stereo SACD's? Isn't this a MC forum?

Stereo 2ch is also multi-channel.

 

[dandare]

I was looking at Steely Dan-Cant Buy A Thrill-Hybrid Stereo SACD|Acoustic Sounds if anybody want a link to all the albums. I live in the UK and will obviously have to pay a high price for these -- but I will get them. I even purchased the MQA versions in the past -- hoping MQA players will come down in price!

 

[ArmyOfQuad]

Oh boy, another remastering of Aja for the audiophiles to debate about.

 

[JediJoker]

I think this is the 7th time for Steely Dan.

In the digital domain? There were the original CD releases; the Citizen Steely Dan box (unique mastering); and then the single album remastered CDs around the turn of the millennium. That's it for full catalogue remastering campaigns, outside of Japan.

 

[marpow]

8 X 35 = $280.00 plus tax.
I have Japanese SHM SACD's of Gaucho, Aja, Pretzel Logic, and Countdown To Ecstasy.
I have 5.1 of Gaucho and Two Against Nature.

So I would need Katy Lied and the Royal Scam.

But I also have secret versions of those.

Is there any convincing knowledge that the AP versions at $280.00 would be worth it. Like phase correction or stuff like that?
I guess it would be wait and see as I don't like being the guinea pig anymore.

 

[cbmmm3]

8 X 35 = $280.00 plus tax.
I have Japanese SHM SACD's of Gaucho, Aja, Pretzel Logic, and Countdown To Ecstasy.
I have 5.1 of Gaucho and Two Against Nature.

So I would need Katy Lied and the Royal Scam.

But I also have secret versions of those.

Is there any convincing knowledge that the AP versions at $280.00 would be worth it. Like phase correction or stuff like that?
I guess it would be wait and see as I don't like being the guinea pig anymore.

Mark
if you can find it, get The Royal Scam in MQA cd and you will be close to having everything you need - less Katy Lied, of course

 

[Wagonmaster_91]

In the digital domain? There were the original CD releases; the Citizen Steely Dan box (unique mastering); and then the single album remastered CDs around the turn of the millennium. That's it for full catalogue remastering campaigns, outside of Japan.

No, I was speaking in terms of the "recorded music" era, but in the digital era Discogs shows Can't Buy A Thrill, for example, has been re-issued/remastered/re-released/re-numbered/re-priced 14 times in the US alone. If you count all formats, it's 74 times.

 

[humprof]

If you've got the tolerance and the patience for it, and you have a well stocked salt cellar, you can find a million threads over at Hoffman debating the merits of the various masterings of individual Steely Dan releases. Since I'm not a vinyl guy, I found this one to be the most useful, even though it's 33 pages and counting:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thre...fferent-masterings-the-summary-thread.561226/

 

[surroundophile]

AP, like MF.......Quad Blocking AGAIN!!!!

 

[fredblue]

fair enough, i appreciate that

its ok because i only have 4,769 versions of "Aja" already..!!

ok, its only 6 versions of "Aja".. on CD..

its been a while since i've played any of this stuff because its all been in storage due to covid/the pandemic but now i'm getting it back, at the risk of crapping all over my own thread i'm thinking i may actually be done with this catalogue after all..?

i mean, out of all the Aja CDs only the SHM-CD utilizing the SHM-SACD DSD mastering and the MFSL CD were what i'd call "unique-sounding", the other 4 CDs (all pre-Roger Nichols' Remaster) sounded the same as one another, despite my fellow inmates at SHTV saying they were different masterings and so on and they all sounded great!

ah i dunno.. i'll see how flush i am, as and when each new SACD comes out, i guess

 

[Larry Geller]

Which is more disappointing, Revolver or this travesty?

 

[JediJoker]

Which is more disappointing, Revolver or this travesty?

To me: this. A whole catalogue with at least six (possibly eight) existing surround mixes, on a format that supports surround, with none of them included.

 

[sbrom]

I’ll buy Can‘t Buy a Thrill (pardon the pun) because it is my favorite SD, has one of my top 5 songs of all time (Reeling In the Years), and all the versions I have listened to are “veiled”.

 

[B&W Driver]

MC rookie here....I didn't read the entire thread, but I did see mention of "existing" and "possibly eight" multichannel mixes. Which of these nine Dan albums have been mixed for MC and in which flavors? 5.1 or 4.0?

 

[4-earredwonder]

I’ll buy Can‘t Buy a Thrill (pardon the pun) because it is my favorite SD, has one of my top 5 songs of all time (Reeling In the Years), and all the versions I have listened to are “veiled”.

I thought the Universal Stereo SHM~SACD sounded pretty spectacular. Veiled? Not on my system!

edit: MY BAD ...... Can't Buy A Thrill is only available as a SHM~CD. Confused it with COUNTOWN TO ECTASY which I do have on SHM~SACD in an excellent transfer!