Haha! Me too! I'm gonna go bankrupt by July! ..and I'm with you on the juicy prospect of a Santana Quad box too! Not only to get those fab Quad mixes of the first album, III, Caravanserai, Welcome & Borboletta.. but also to see if Amigos is indeed a real Quad mix stymied by lousy SQ encoding, or just a fake Quad mix as some experts have suggested over the years! Oh and I'd dearly love to know what the Quad master of Festival sounds like.. and how and where instruments actually pan and are placed.. the SQ matrix Quad record of Festival decodes as a fairly uneven (weird even!) mix.. and apparently the discrete Quad mix as is on Q8 is even weirder with even more illogical placement due to the enhanced separation over the vinyl, yet only about 10 people have ever heard the Q8 to tell the tale.. super rare that one! Of course they (Sony?) would have to include the Quads of Illuminations w/Alice Coltrane, Love Devotion Surrender w/John McLaughlin, Live! With Buddy Miles! and Lotus in the box too.. Imagine.. A Santana box stuffed full of 11 (ELEVEN!) Quads.. Hopefully.. Let's all make a wish! (Sorry for going off topic, just entered dream land and couldn't get out for a minute! )
Multiple multichannel albums on a single bluray! This seems like a first of its kind release... Hope the transfers are done as good as the AF SACDs. I kind of doubt it. The effort put into the Best of Doors sacd shows.
Has there been any information on the Stereo versions included on the discs... I know they're hi-resolution, but are they remasters and/or new mixes?
Yes, but there have already been remastered original mixes released by Rhino years ago (not terribly well-regarded here)... so are these new remasters? Remasters 2.0?
They are not. Those were remastered to 44.1/16 and these are true 192/24 remasters. Oh, and not the same ones up on HD Tracks, etc. They are unique to this Blu-ray set.
I'm particularly interested in how Chicago II sounds, as none of the previous versions seem to do it justice.
I hope they hire an audiophile remastering engineer in the same caliber as Kevin Gray, Steve Hoffman, or the late Doug Sax.
Afternoon Sketches is his only other remastering. All info. is right there in the AllMusic link. Craig Anderson | Credits | AllMusic » How is it such a big Chicago fan has not read any of this since last Thursday ???? You've been online...posting in other threads. .