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
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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.
jefe1
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
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'.
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