Dylan SACD-good news.


In theory at least....................

SONY MUSIC ANNOUNCES NEW BOB DYLAN SUPER AUDIO CD (SACD) SERIES
January 10, 2003
LAS VEGAS (CES, Booth #N109), Jan. 10, 2003 -- Sony Music
Entertainment (SME) today announced it will be releasing a new series of
classic albums by Columbia Records artist Bob Dylan on hybrid Super Audio CD
(SACD) this Fall. The announcement was made by Jeff Jones, Senior Vice
President, Legacy Recordings during a special SACD reception sponsored by
Sony and Philips at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

The Bob Dylan titles mark the beginning of an ongoing program to
enhance and upgrade the sonic quality and packaging elements of the Dylan
catalog. These 15 titles are also the first Sony Music recordings to be
released on hybrid SACD and will be produced on a new hybrid disc
replication line that is scheduled to be launched in May, 2003 at Sony Disc
Manufacturing's U.S. flagship facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. The 15
titles comprise many iconic titles from Dylan's canon: Free Wheelin';
Another Side of Bob Dylan; Bringing It All Back Home; Highway 61 Revisited;
John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline; Blood On The Tracks; Desire; Slow
Train Coming; Infidels; Oh Mercy; Time Out Of Mind; Love and Theft; Royal
Albert Hall and Street Legal.

"The release of these classic Bob Dylan albums on hybrid SACD will
extend the benefits of this exciting format to a much wider audience,"
stated Jeff Jones. "Each of these Dylan titles will be reissued in stereo,
and they will be carefully remastered and reproduced to the highest quality
standards." The entire series of reissues will be remastered by Greg Calbi,
Senior Mastering Engineer at Sterling Sound in New York, whose credits
include John Lennon's Walls and Bridges and Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run
albums.

To date, Sony Music has released approximately 200 SACD titles
including nearly 60 in multichannel surround sound. During the first quarter
of this year, Sony Music will be releasing a variety of other stereo and
multichannel SACD titles including Aerosmith's Toys In The Attic; James
Taylor's Flag and Dad Loves His Work; and a new album by Macy Gray.
ben_campbell
Drubin, Thank you very much for taking the time to pass this information along. I will follow your advice, and again, I thank you much.
Give me a break!! Now I get to buy these damn discs for a third time (fourth if you count LPs 30 yrs ago)? Didn't Sony, just within the last 3-4 yrs, release all of these as Remastered Superbit Mapping treasures? Didn't I buy most of them after buying the stupid things in the late 80s - and hating the sound of every one? Didn't I do the same thing with a dozen Miles Davis CDs? I'll stick with my 24/96 CD system and leave it at that. Maybe someday I'll check out SACD when disc costs are the same or less than CD. I'm enjoying music too much now to steal time from it for another pie-in-the-sky upgrade hunt.
Pick Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
is also coming to SACD in March.

In addition there'll be several albums from The Police and Peter Gabrial. There'll be a third SACD by James Taylor.
Anybody else think Dark Side of the Moon, beause of all the radio overplay and audiophile hype, just sounds silly nowadays?
You know, I own to much Dylan to re-buy it all. I just don't think I want to do it.