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[blue.monk]

There's a Yes Live in '72 box set a-coming. Interesting...

http://www.amazon.com/Progeny-Seven...en Shows from Seventy Two&tag=viglink20252-20

 

[Philip Spinner]

Where are these people living, under a rock.
Phil

 

[Clint Eastwood]

There's a Yes Live in '72 box set a-coming. Interesting...

http://www.amazon.com/Progeny-Seven...en Shows from Seventy Two&tag=viglink20252-20

14 freaking CD's..ugh....how many times are these companies going to use the old "newly discovered tapes" scam...geeze...this makes Eddie And The Cruisers seem more realistic than this tired campaign...I wonder how many will bite on this one...

 

[John Svensson]

Don't quite get....90 minutes of live shows, what's on the other 12 cds?

 

[GOS]

Probably open a can of worms here...but someone please educate me. So...we have all these recent releases of SACD, Blu-Ray Audio...etc. Many of them are from the same era...yet there is a BIG TIME DIFFERENCE IN SOUND QUALITY. Couple examples......

The Best of Bread SACD vs Jethro Tull...Aqualung. Agualung is older...yet there is no contest. I mean seriously.....Tull sounds like it could be a 2015 recording. Bread sounds very dated to say the least. I still like it...but if Tull is a 10...then the Bread has to be a 5. Seriously.....

So.....educate me.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Probably open a can of worms here...but someone please educate me. So...we have all these recent releases of SACD, Blu-Ray Audio...etc. Many of them are from the same era...yet there is a BIG TIME DIFFERENCE IN SOUND QUALITY. Couple examples......

The Best of Bread SACD vs Jethro Tull...Aqualung. Agualung is older...yet there is no contest. I mean seriously.....Tull sounds like it could be a 2015 recording. Bread sounds very dated to say the least. I still like it...but if Tull is a 10...then the Bread has to be a 5. Seriously.....

So.....educate me.

In that example it's easy...Steven Wilson.....enough said...and it was done recently(2011)

 

[Perp]

Also, isn't the Tull release a new master mixed to 5.1 versus an old Quad of Bread that's been futzed with only slightly, if at all?

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Also, isn't the Tull release a new master mixed to 5.1 versus an old Quad of Bread that's been futzed with only slightly, if at all?

Yep...that's why I went back and put the date in(2011) for Tull

 

[GOS]

Also, isn't the Tull release a new master mixed to 5.1 versus an old Quad of Bread that's been futzed with only slightly, if at all?

Guess I really don't know...maybe that's part of the difference...

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Guess I really don't know...maybe that's part of the difference...

Most of the reason is that Steven Wilson did it and the other part is it was in 2011...as opposed to the Bread mix from the 70's...

 

[GOS]

OK....then we have the Blood Sweat & Tears SACD's. What up with them? They are old albums...yet the SACD sound flat out amazing. Could pass for a recent release.....

 

[GOS]

Probably I'm trying to over-simplify all this.....I guess I'm looking for reasons why they can't all sound killer....hehehe.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Probably I'm trying to over-simplify all this.....I guess I'm looking for reasons why they can't all sound killer....hehehe.

LOL...you keep this up and you are going to talk yourself out of the Bread SACD...

 

[GOS]

LOL...you keep this up and you are going to talk yourself out of the Bread SACD...

I know...I know. But nah.....I'm still good for it.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

OK....then we have the Blood Sweat & Tears SACD's. What up with them? They are old albums...yet the SACD sound flat out amazing. Could pass for a recent release.....

Blood Sweat And Tears II was 1968...pretty amazing stuff...I'm just glad we have them...

 

[Clint Eastwood]

I know...I know. But nah.....I'm still good for it.

I bet the wife liked Bread and Guess Who...

 

[GOS]

I bet the wife liked Bread and Guess Who...

Yes...she was singing the tunes.....

 

[GOS]

I guess if they all sounded equally impressive...we'd have nothing to debate would we?

 

[JonUrban]

Any surround mix that is created from the original multi-tracks using today's technology is going to sound better than a re-issue of an 40+ year old mix, even if that mix is "fixed up" a bit.

Steven Wilson gets access to the actual multi's and creates a new sparkling mix for most of the projects he works on. This results in a superior product when compared to the old classic quadraphonic mixes.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Any surround mix that is created from the original multi-tracks using today's technology is going to sound better than a re-issue of an 40+ year old mix, even if that mix is "fixed up" a bit.

Steven Wilson gets access to the actual multi's and creates a new sparkling mix for most of the projects he works on. This results in a superior product when compared to the old classic quadraphonic mixes.

That's true about having access to the original tapes and modern equipment...BUT most of his professional peers STILL couldn't do what Wilson does..only a few could make such drastic improvements...a very very short list I might add...