Post by Tony Y. June 11, 2012 (1 of 29)
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Queen Greatest Hit I & II on SHM-SACD will be available on 29 Aug. They're a must for Queen fans.
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Post by junchoon June 11, 2012 (2 of 29)
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was told the earlier Queen shm-sacds are below par. hope they will improve with these new releases.
wps
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Post by Tony Y. June 12, 2012 (3 of 29)
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In fact, I was impressed with the "A night at the Opera" SHM-SACD. I rated it #1 in my SHM-SACD library.
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junchoon said:
was told the earlier Queen shm-sacds are below par. hope they will improve with these new releases.
wps
Hi Junchoon,
I have all of them, and I can guarantee you they are all excellent. Though full SA-CD resolution is not satisfied because these are released from 96KHz/24bits remasters, Bob Ludwig really did an excellent job.
Maybe the albums from "A Kind of Magic" to "Made In Heaven" are a bit disappointing, but one feels Bob Ludwig did the best he could : these albums were 44.1KHz/16bits recorded, digital sound technology was still babbling so dynamics are a bit harsh.
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Tony Y. said:
In fact, I was impressed with the "A night at the Opera" SHM-SACD. I rated it #1 in my SHM-SACD library.
Hi Tony Y.,
Agreed, this is the best one, though my own #1 are Beggar's Banquet by the Rolling Stones, the eponym Album by Dire Straits and Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
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Post by AmonRa June 12, 2012 (6 of 29)
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Kveld-Úlfr said:
these albums were 44.1KHz/16bits recorded,
I doubt it, I suspect all Queen albums are even worse: analog multitrack tape.
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AmonRa said:
I doubt it, I suspect all Queen albums are even worse: analog multitrack tape.
Hi AmonRa,
The info I gave is part Wikipedia, part Sound On Sound magazine's interviews.
I am surprised you qualify analog multitrack tape as "worse" than digital recording.
Of course, there's no truth in this eternal debate/comparison between A and D, yet SA-CD listeners mostly prefer A - as do I.
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Post by AmonRa June 12, 2012 (8 of 29)
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Kveld-Úlfr said:
I am surprised you qualify analog multitrack tape as "worse" than digital recording.
First: look at the specs of the best tape recorders, then the old digital recorders. No contest there, even early digital is vastly better.
Second: why do you think all classical labels eagerly adopted digital recording when it became available, even with only 2 tracks at 16/44, in lieu of analog multitrack recorders?
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Post by junchoon June 12, 2012 (9 of 29)
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Huh??? Seems to have two extreme views on queen shm-sacds. Actually I was eyeing night of the opera but was put off by comments that it is below par.
Now I am not sure.
WPS
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Post by AmonRa June 12, 2012 (10 of 29)
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First DigiPop: Dire Straights: Brothers in Arms 1985
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