HiRez Poll Santana - CARAVANSERAI [SACD]

[CINERAMAX]

Great Mix. Giving it an 7 for love of the Music (These Two Guys could have taken this easily 100 MPH more) and a Plus 1 for the Japanese 7" Packaging which is soooo cool. 8 total

This is actually my Vote for the McLaughlin. OOps!

 

[omega4]

I have owned this album in SQ since it was released and bought the Sony SACD (I do not have the previous stereo SACD) last year but have not voted until now. This has always been one of my favoured Santana albums and musically it is great. So, I voted a 9 because I now have Welcome on SACD which is even better overall and I felt the need to leave headroom to vote this latest release as a 10 when the Welcome poll is available. If only we could vote out of 100 I could have given Caravanserai 99, just a smidgen behind Welcome!

 

[Scott M4]

I have owned this album in SQ since it was released and bought the Sony SACD (I do not have the previous stereo SACD) last year but have not voted until now. This has always been one of my favoured Santana albums and musically it is great. So, I voted a 9 because I now have Welcome on SACD which is even better overall and I felt the need to leave headroom to vote this latest release as a 10 when the Welcome poll is available. If only we could vote out of 100 I could have given Caravanserai 99, just a smidgen behind Welcome!

I think, then, that mathematically, you have to round up to 10!

 

[par4ken]

I'm surprised that I haven't voted on this already. I know that this is a favourite for a lot of people here but for me it just rates a bit above "Welcome" which I just rated as a nine. Although I like this better than "Welcome" I can't give a ten because the other Santana's which I much prefer are all tens!

Excellent surround and great sound, so I'm voting a nine.

 

[omnipotent1]

TEN all day everyday.
Fantastic mix,fantastic sounds.
Packaging that can't be beat

 

[quadrifonico]

Figure that Caravanserai is the first vinyl I randomly put on the turntable as a kid; I knew the name Santana but not much more apart from maybe the melody of samba pa TI heard on TV commercials or in the car. Well I liked the cover so I played it. I never stopped listening to music from that time. It is his first properly fusion album and though less good than the first 3 I still consider it a masterpiece. Now this SACD is perfection: artwork, packaging, sonics. Sounds super clean but guitar is rough as the original but with improved definition. Nice . As often these quadraphonic era mixes are already perfect with nothing needing improvement. We have in our hands the definitive version of Caravanserai; the 4.0 mix reveals all the many layers of percussions especially placed in the rears. A must have for any Santana lover. Borboletta is next though I never liked that one as much