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Listened to this SACD last night. Most all the music seemed to be pretty much typically recorded 80's pop. Though I haven't heard the hits on CD so I couldn't tell you if they are appreciably better than CD. BUT out of the blue Otis Redding's beautiful song, Sittin on the dock of the bay, stuck me senseless. Otis himself stepped out of the SACD disk, sat on my fireplace between my speaker gods, and belted out his song. His voice was fautless and recorded so well. It was indistinguishable from live. In fact I gave him the ultimate compliment, soon after the song was through I fell asleep, I was so relaxed.
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description of the Otis Redding track has got me licking my chops.As a matter of fact, I had recently compiled a collection of exceptional sounding oldies for two of my audiophile buddies up in the northeast, and I included "Dock of the Bay" (from a long out of print CD) that displays the characteristics you described to a tee. The fact is that since current red book seedees are more compressed than those that were introduced at the dawn of the digital age, there is no way for a new-comer to audio to find Otis in digital sound (on red book, anyway) that can begin to sound as astonishingly real! Too bad, though, that Top Gun doesn't also include his "Try A Little Tenderness" - that Hammond organ is to die for! It shall be interesting to see how the Sony SACD transfer stacks up.
No, but you can get another Otis Redding song on SACD as part of the excellent "The Sopranos" SACD 2 disc set.
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The Otis Redding cut is "My Lover's Prayer" in Mono.My favorites on it include the material from Frank Sinatra, Nils Lofgren and several more.
The Sopranos SACD is a bit eclectic in the wide variety of music on it. But there are some fine sounding material throughout. Recommended.
I have the Top Gun CD and the Footloose CD, and just purchased Kenny Loggins Greatest Hits, which has a song from each of these CD's. THe SACD versions are markedly better than the CD versions. I don't know if it is the remastering or the format though. I want the Top Gun SACD (I;m an 80's kid), but haven't seen it available in my area yet. Gonna try and venture to a Tower Records in the future though, so maybe they will have it.McCracken
Here in Silicon Valley, I've spotted both the Top Gun and Footloose SACDs at both the San Mateo and Mountain View Tower stores.So Tower is carrying them.
I'm pretty sure I saw it there.
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