Meat Loaf SACD by Analog Sparks...

...coming in July.

 

What title??!

 

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell [SACD] - Amazon.com Music »

 

Never heard of Analog Sparks before. Do they do good work? Who does mastering for them?

 

There are already two SACDs of this album in circulation, a stereo only and a stereo / multichannel one, both single layer discs (with no Red Book CD layer). What's this release going to offer?

 

I'd really love a new SACD with good audio for both Multi and stereo. By the time I was able to buy SACDs the previous releases were OOP and mostly had bad audio reviews so I passed.

 

Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell - What Went Wrong? »

See this thread. When I first got the multichannel SACD I quite liked it, but a repeat listen today suggests it is one of the worst surround mixes I have heard. Given that some of the multitrack tapes have been lost in a fire the chances of a better mix aren't great.

 

What makes you say this? Any inside knowledge of the situation?

 

Why not... they reissued a few nice LPs... Got a big care package from Analog Spark, some tasty vinyl offerings... »

 

As always - hope for the best, expect the worst

 

What else?!

*sigh*

 

Midnight at the lost & found lol

 

Will pick it up it up sounds decent.

Pat

 

According to their website Kevin Gray is mastering it

 

Will it be on a "Digital Sparks" sub-label?

 

Alright, now you have my attention! I've something of a habit for collecting (what seems like a million) reissues of Pet Sounds, often without hearing any significant improvements over previous versions, while my partner is similarly obsessive when it comes to Bat Out Of Hell, so I might just have to get this one for her birthday...

 

Never heard of them before either, but I like what I'm reading on their site.
Looking at The Raspberries, this is how an AAA record should be listed: "Mastered and cut from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio"

Looks like very transparent source lineage info on almost every release.

 

Kevin Gray mastered Bat Out Of Hell? Automatic buy!

 

Now I know Kevin Gray is doing it, my hopes have raised.

 

Well, this is a must-buy.

 

I would love to own some Jim Steinman on SACD finally. I think my holy grail for early 80's would be to have Bonnie Tyler's Faster than the Speed of Night (and Stevie Nicks first two albums on SACD.)

 

I think Steve said it would sound bad, didn't he?

 

Analog Sparks vinyl titles remind me of the titles at Goodwill. Minus the Brubeck and Raspberries.