New Surround SACDs from Dutton Vocalion; Poco, Johnnie Taylor & Airto/Deodato (July 2018)

[boxhead]

Ordered Poco and Johnnie Taylor at 19:04 local time. Got the 'shipped' notification at 19:07 - a new record?

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[edisonbaggins]

Poco shipped. Took them 62 minutes.

 

[djstephan]

I got a shipped email also just a minute ago. I received my last order within a week (UK to Crete , Greece) , so things have definitely improved with shipping at DV , well done!

 

[oxenholme]

Order shipped!

 

[4-earredwonder]

DITTO! C O U N T D O W N !

 

[jwb474]

All 3 ordered. Ordered 5:32am, ship notification at 5:36am. Guess DV getting slow.

 

[winopener]

The quad mix is excellent... especially on discrete QR or Q8.

 

[EHughes]

If you like Santana "Borboletta" give a shot at the Airto disc.

Now I'm gonna have to consider this title.
See post#43 lol!

 

[jefe1]

Ordered all 3 yesterday morning. Got shipping email at 2 am my time. This time I paid for tracking so I wouldn't freak out again.

All I have to add is: Where are the August surround SACDS?
Its only 32 days to August.....

 

[4-earredwonder]

Ordered all 3 yesterday morning. Got shipping email at 2 am my time. This time I paid for tracking so I wouldn't freak out again.

All I have to add is: Where are the August surround SACDS?
Its only 32 days to August.....

D~V is [usually] on a bi~monthly release schedule...........so probably not until September...... unfortunately!

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Ordered all 3 yesterday morning. Got shipping email at 2 am my time. This time I paid for tracking so I wouldn't freak out again.

Yeah, I paid for tracking the last time I ordered (Derringer, Guess Who) because of freaking out from the 6 weeks it took to get the order before that (the Garfunkels). The strange thing is, no one ever supplied a tracking number.

I guess I don't understand the hows or whys regarding how DV ships. One time its 6 weeks. The next time its 8 days. WTF???

 

[MIDIQ]

Poco, fantastic. I have Poco 7, but have never heard the other one, can't wait. Poco 7 is a fantastic quad mix. Also ordered Airto, deodato one. They shipped already. Woo hoo.

 

[fredblue]

Horrors, Ninecats......I was always told "Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth." I totally understand your 'purist' rationale but, hey, 2 QUADs on one SACD for US $16 is a veritable steal [Christmas in July?].

I was always aghast by the incredible waste of real estate when the majors released a single 40 minute album on a BD~A. A BD~A could probably hold twenty times more music per single disc.

you know Ralphie, i think maybe we've got so used to paying more money for less content with this surround music hobby, its quite a shock to get two entire surround albums on one disc for such little money!

keep it up DV (and steelyDV) freddums is lovin' your work!

 

[4-earredwonder]

you know Ralphie, i think maybe we've got so used to paying more money for less content with this surround music hobby, its quite a shock to get two entire surround albums on one disc for such little money!

keep it up DV (and steelyDV) freddums is lovin' your work!

Adamos [if you had dimples you'd be Adonis], FORGET Santa, Pietro Panini [the Italian Peter Pan], Lemony Snicket, the Easter Bunny and The Tooth Fairy: If there IS a Quad God he resides in Watford!

 

[zmacman]

Just Ordered the Poco double, can't wait!

 

[karlkastner]

I don't know the Poco music. But I'll order it by and by.

Gona wait for at least one more title to bundle it with. Preferably rock or easy listening. Like more Guess Who, or Croce, or Lightfoot....

 

[zmacman]

Poco is like early Eagles but almost blue grass at times, incredible vocal harmonies and great instrumentation. Been a big fan for a long time. Actually met the guys after a concert in town, invited in their tour buss for a beer afterwards. Fun times!

 

[Which_One_Is_Pink]

Poco is like early Eagles but almost blue grass at times, incredible vocal harmonies and great instrumentation. Been a big fan for a long time. Actually met the guys after a concert in town, invited in their tour buss for a beer afterwards. Fun times!

With good reason as both Timothy B. Schmit and Randy Meisner played bass and sang in both bands, during different periods of course.

 

[quicksrt]

Would you prefer they'd just left the album off the two-fer and charged the same price for Airto Fingers on its own to protect your delicate sensibilities? I have the Q8 of In Concert and it's no surround extravaganza, as is the case with a lot of live quad albums. The performances are fantastic, but it's my recollection that the only discrete rear-channel action was the string overdubs to Deodato's tracks, which were added by Bob James after the fact. Given how talented he is, I suspect Mike Dutton has gotten more out of the SQ master with his studio wizardry than the quad mix was originally.

If you like latin jazz/jazz-fusion at all, the quad mix of Fingers is a must - consider In Concert as a bonus to that.

You mean more quad discreet action out of an SQ encoded master than the original 4-track mixdown? Ummmm... I don't think so.

I am not trying to argue with you, and I imagine your feelings are delicate(?) about these reissues since you worked hard to make them even better. But let's not get carried away there.

 

[fredblue]

You mean more quad discreet action out of an SQ encoded master than the original 4-track mixdown? Ummmm... I don't think so.

funnily enough, this is exactly what happened with Santana's Lotus, the decoded SQ turned out to have more surround activity than the mix on the actual 4-channel master
(due in part, I'm guessing, to all that phase shifting jiggery-pokery SQ is known for, moving stuff about to the rears which was never engineered to be there in the 4-ch discrete presentation in the first place!?)