Cheap Xmas: Donald Fagen Complete - Vinylbox coming in December

Maybe tomorrow i i‘ll get my boxset!

 

It was given to me for Christmas Enjoying Kamakiriad and the Bonus LP today.

Kamakiriad mastered by Glenn Meadows.

Mayfield Mastering | Nashville Glenn Meadows -

 

I have this new box. I can confirm that the mastering credits on both the Morph the Cat sleeve and in it's run-out grooves are indeed KG+SH@ATM (Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech mastering)

 

Credits and deadwax on original "Sunken Condos" said Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Is it the same in the box?

If so, then it looks like everything except for Kamakiriad and the Extras disc are the same as the currently issued separates. I doubt the extras will be released separately, but hopefully Kama will be and I can pick that up on its own.

(I was going to get the box at Amazon.ca's pre-order price of $105, about $80 USD, but the price jumped as I was putting it into the cart, so I bailed. I don't expect the Extras would get much play, anyway, and I have many of the tracks on CD, so I think I'm okay to skip it.)

 

Is Morph still bass heavy?

 

Really? In my box only the extra disc and "Sunken Condos" came in polyliners. The rest had printed inners. EU pressing.

 

Same with mine... only Sunken Condos and the extra disc had the polyliners.

 

Just like "Morph", the boxed "Sunken Condos" has the same deadwax as the standalone release. Main difference: It's black.

The quality of the sleeves is very good, the ones I already have originals for are looking almost identical in the box. Not the usual blurry scan ******** so many reissues now have. Very solid quality throughout

 

Morph on DVD-AUDIO in multichannel is reference. I absolutely love that gooey bass!

 

Glad I saw this post. I'm playing the Morph the Cat DVD-A and it sounds excellent as that gooey bass oozes out of my subs ! I have the Cheap Xmas vinyl set but have yet to crack it open. I better get on that.

 

I've finally listened to this entire box set. Beautifully done! Standard-weight vinyl that sounds absolutely fantastic - clean pressings and amazing sound quality all-around. The Nightfly sounds almost as good as the MFSL One-Step pressing that cost almost as much as this entire box set all by itself (and is selling for at least 2x that now that it's out of print). All of the other records - even the "Extras" disc - has the pristine sound quality you'd expect from a Donald Fagen release. It's really great that they didn't cheap out on the pressings - Morph The Cat spreads its 52 minute runtime over 4 luxurious sides, and Sunken Condos is 44 minutes spread over 3 sides...really gives the music room to breathe, and it all sounds fantastic.

This box is a bargain, and a must-have.

 

The magic of two channel analog never beats a perfectly mixed multichannel disc. Near field analog is fun here and there however.

 

Finished this set after two days: Fantastic! Do we know what will happen next? Will there be a black standalone release of "Sunken Condos"? Will "Kamakiriad" see an individual release? Contemplating what to do with the fact that I know have two identically mastered editions of "Morph" and "Sunken Condos". You don't sell first pressings. Especially when one has a gatefold. But simply sell the new ones and put my originals into the box? Is that a good idea? Hmmmmm........ .

 

Can comment on the sound on Nightfly and Kamakariad compared to the original lps?

 

Just did an A-B of "The Nightfly" of the original LP to the box set.

Giving the edge to the box set. To my ears and on my system, the sound breathes better. Soundstage is wider. Really nice.

 

Cool. Send me the original!

 

Ha! Sorry. I turned around and already sold it. : )

 

First fifty listens was that vinyl version, last fifty was DVD-Audio multichannel. Great album for sure.

 

Had chance to play the new Nightfly and Kamakiriad against my originals yesterday. The new ones sound more pleasant overall but don't quite have the dynamic of the originals imo

 

I never had "Kamakiriad" on vinyl, so I can't compare, but I thought that the new version of "The Nightfly" was more spacious and expansive in its soundstage. To my ears, the overall sound was livelier, had more punch, and breathed more in my A-B comparison with the original first pressing.

 

Although the Morph is the only one of them I don't have on vinyl (and the extras of course) I will probably end up buying the box ;-) What I heard sounded good!

 

The mastering on Morph The Cat is my favorite one of the set. Some people have thought that it was a little bass heavy, but that's kindof what I like about it. : )

 

The mastering on "Morph" is exactly the same as on the original pressing. This is why I sold the box version and put the original in there.

 

Never had it on vinyl before, so this is the first time I've heard "Morph" on LP. It's my favorite of the set.

 

It was done by one Steve Hoffman. With a little help by a certain Kevin Gray.

It's fantastic.