Santana "Borboletta" 7-inch Sony Japan MultiCh SACD coming November 6th, 2024
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Actually, the same packaging was used with the first Santana, Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow and Wired, Bloomfield/Cooper/Stills Super Session...
I think he's talking about the actual disc package (which looks like a slipcase), rather than the cardboard box they mailed it to him in.
Mine arrived today via DHL. Will listen later this evening.
I have the debut album and it looks exactly like this. The others in the series so far have the mini-lp sleeve format.
Yes it is more a container than a replica sleeve. Just like the first Santana but I would argue the Super Session is simply a single lp sleeve and not like this.
Going all the way back to Jeff Beck ~ Wired, released eight years ago, the sleeves for this series have been sized proportionally to the thickness of the bonus memorabilia & poster content.
Check it out, identical in thickness & construction to Santana I.
Borboletta is slightly thicker due to the book plus two 13 x 18 -inch posters folded three times each.
Soon everybody will have this in their hands to see for themselves.
The jury will decide if anyone wants to argue about what "container" versus "replica" means.
JediJoker
Audio Engineer/Enthusiast
Yikes! Mine is already in Norway - freaky fast by DHL! I can probably pick it up tomorrow.
I have no quibbles with that packaging. The original was a single sleeve, no gatefold. I have very high hopes for this one in surround though. It’s a step down from Welcome, but only a very small step, and musically it has the potential to be even better in surround.
I have no quibbles with that packaging. The original was a single sleeve, no gatefold. I have very high hopes for this one in surround though. It’s a step down from Welcome, but only a very small step, and musically it has the potential to be even better in surround.
Mine arrived yesterday DHL from Japan.
I got 4 items just opened the shipping box. Lots of protective packaging. Hope to be able to listen later this week.
I got 4 items just opened the shipping box. Lots of protective packaging. Hope to be able to listen later this week.
For people who've received (and listened) to their discs, I'd be interested in a preliminary report about how much bass there is - the quad mix on Q8 was really bass-heavy, which seems to be a byproduct of the master tape, because the quad mix on Tidal was also really bassy. Has Sony Japan done any mastering to even things out?
Here is my copy on the way. Leave japan, go to Alaska, go back to Japan, WTF?
Mine arrived today.
I'll give DHL, kudos, they don't hang about with their delivery timescale.
Yet to open the box.
Might save the grand opening to early December.
As my son may wish to give it to me for my birthday
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I'll give DHL, kudos, they don't hang about with their delivery timescale.
Yet to open the box.
Might save the grand opening to early December.
As my son may wish to give it to me for my birthday
.
What is delightful to me may be disappointing to you.
Listening now to Track 8, Mirage, there is bass guitar filling the room from all four corners.
Soloing individual channels, bass guitar in all four, predominate in right rear, with organ and a touch of hi-hat. Not too heavy for me.
A quantum leap superior to the weak bass guitar mixes on Santana III, where the bass is often mixed to a single channel, or pair.
Track 8 is the final one with original bassist David Brown.
The next three have Stanley Clarke guesting, again from every speaker.
Color me well pleased and satisfied, YMMV.
The bass is present.
I dig it, do not know the source material as well as others, but even thought as I listened 'wow that is a lot of bass for a Santana album'.
I missed the DHL delivery today - although I *thought* I had agreed to no signature delivery. I scheduled one for tomorrow.
reidc
Active Member
I received my copy today. So after lunch I played it up in my office on my Denon DVD-3910. Its only a 2 channel system, but I was very pleased with the sound overall.
I just played it downstairs in my den, which is a multi channel system. The player is a Sony BDP-S870, through a Denon AVR-S4800H receiver. Upon playback in surround I wanted to throw-up all over. The vocals were completely lost in the mix, and things were missing. I played around with some of the soundstage settings on my remote, but noting really helped. Then I notice a Pure button bottom right... pressed it and voila!!! The world is MUCH better now. The mix is great. This makes me want to breakout my Caravanserai and Welcome discs as well.
Coincidently- my MFSL Vinyl Caravanserai showed up yesterday, and haven't been able to crack that open yet.
Not sure where the series is going to from here for Sony Japan though. The stories about the original Amigos mix and Festival are not sounding very good, although if Amigos was released- I'd probably get it for completeness sake. It would be a long wait through if they hold to 50th anniversary... March 2026!!!
Chris
I just played it downstairs in my den, which is a multi channel system. The player is a Sony BDP-S870, through a Denon AVR-S4800H receiver. Upon playback in surround I wanted to throw-up all over. The vocals were completely lost in the mix, and things were missing. I played around with some of the soundstage settings on my remote, but noting really helped. Then I notice a Pure button bottom right... pressed it and voila!!! The world is MUCH better now. The mix is great. This makes me want to breakout my Caravanserai and Welcome discs as well.
Coincidently- my MFSL Vinyl Caravanserai showed up yesterday, and haven't been able to crack that open yet.
Not sure where the series is going to from here for Sony Japan though. The stories about the original Amigos mix and Festival are not sounding very good, although if Amigos was released- I'd probably get it for completeness sake. It would be a long wait through if they hold to 50th anniversary... March 2026!!!
Chris
jazzbo51
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Listening right now...vocals and instruments well balanced!
I've had a similar thing happen in reverse, I sent a parcel with the recipients address on one side and my return address on the other, someone looked at the return address and thought that that's where it was going to. It came promptly back to me.
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