- Audio CD (16 Dec 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Hybrid SACD
- Label: Ztt
- ASIN: B00005UUNB
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 128,044 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
outstanding audio content from an already top cd, but the sound quality of the sacd is what every 5.1 listener is looking for. this sacd will blow you away, i would think that this sacd will be heard in many hi-fi shops to sell systems to show how much better sacd sounds over conventional cd's. you hear so much more than you remember and the memories of the youth clubs come flooding back. only they sound better.rage hard cd is excellent, in sacd it'll blow you away. try listening to this with your eyes shut, nearest you'll ever get to being there. well impressed.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having practically everything by FGTH already in my collection, I was excited listening to the music in 5.1 surround sound. Some negative reviews were, however, a warning that the sound may disappoint.
On that sound issue, I both agree and disagree. The mixes are in a way immaculate and the lack of bass is, from my point of view, not wholly justified. The problem lies much more in the sound style of that period; very crystal and "pure" at the expense of depth. This means that the mixing would really needed a re-mix of a sort or even some re-recordings to be up to par of today's accepted sound imaging. Hence, the 5.1 mix is not as good as one maybe could have hoped for but compare the original sound to albums such as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and it becomes obvious that the comparison is not justified.
The song selection is excellent: San Jose, Ferry Cross the Mersey and Born To Run being absolute delights. The choice of having the full length album version of Welcome ... adds further value to the set. There are, however, two very dubious choices of versions, worse yet their biggest hits, Relax and Two Tribes. The versions one would expect are either the single versions or the 12 inch ones. Sorry, but the chosen versions are the inferior versions taken from the Welcome.... album. This applies especially to Two Tribes which of course has the classic well known 12 inch version. The album version differs also considerably from the single version, lacking the ferocity and innovativeness in production which had in a sense been cleaned up, and sterilized, for the album. This alone is worth ducking a star from this release.
Despite some shortcomings this set is well worth buying and surround sound wise excluded a great compilation of their biggest hits. Hopefully Welcome To The Pleasuredome will one day also be released in a 5.1 version, including then hopefully the other mixes of Relax and Two Tribes.
On that sound issue, I both agree and disagree. The mixes are in a way immaculate and the lack of bass is, from my point of view, not wholly justified. The problem lies much more in the sound style of that period; very crystal and "pure" at the expense of depth. This means that the mixing would really needed a re-mix of a sort or even some re-recordings to be up to par of today's accepted sound imaging. Hence, the 5.1 mix is not as good as one maybe could have hoped for but compare the original sound to albums such as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and it becomes obvious that the comparison is not justified.
The song selection is excellent: San Jose, Ferry Cross the Mersey and Born To Run being absolute delights. The choice of having the full length album version of Welcome ... adds further value to the set. There are, however, two very dubious choices of versions, worse yet their biggest hits, Relax and Two Tribes. The versions one would expect are either the single versions or the 12 inch ones. Sorry, but the chosen versions are the inferior versions taken from the Welcome.... album. This applies especially to Two Tribes which of course has the classic well known 12 inch version. The album version differs also considerably from the single version, lacking the ferocity and innovativeness in production which had in a sense been cleaned up, and sterilized, for the album. This alone is worth ducking a star from this release.
Despite some shortcomings this set is well worth buying and surround sound wise excluded a great compilation of their biggest hits. Hopefully Welcome To The Pleasuredome will one day also be released in a 5.1 version, including then hopefully the other mixes of Relax and Two Tribes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Great music and a fantastic production. The bass in the surround mix is just thunderous: I'm sure it scares the neighborhood but I can't help playing "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" again and again. I have no idea how anyone can complain about the lack of bass when the thump from the subwoofer nearly knocks you out of the room. At the same time everything else in the mix is crystal clear - superb.
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