New SACD remaster of Brothers in Arms

[vgonis]

In September 2007 the Audio Engineering Society published the results of a year-long trial, in which a range of subjects including professional recording engineers were asked to discern the difference between SACD and compact disc audio (44.1 kHz/16 bit) under double blind test conditions. Out of 554 trials, there were 276 correct answers, a 49.8 % success rate corresponding almost exactly to the 50 % that would have been expected by chance guessing alone.

    In this order...
Now that is what I call a good marketing plan. Selling the same product over and over again. And I am one of the fools...

[Hoops McCann]

In September 2007 the Audio Engineering Society published the results of a year-long trial, in which a range of subjects including professional recording engineers were asked to discern the difference between SACD and compact disc audio (44.1 kHz/16 bit) under double blind test conditions. Out of 554 trials, there were 276 correct answers, a 49.8 % success rate corresponding almost exactly to the 50 % that would have been expected by chance guessing alone.

    In this order...
Now that is what I call a good marketing plan. Selling the same product over and over again. And I am one of the fools...

I have the original release from 1985, the 1996 Bob Ludwig remaster, and the 2005 two sided disc release with the 5.1 DVD-A remix on one side and the same remaster from 1996 on the other. So I'm probably a fool too.  I can hear an obvious difference between the 1985 and 1996 versions and Bob Ludwig did an excellent job on the remaster, but I feel like anything after that is just overkill unless 5.1 surround is your thing. I have some 24/96 releases of albums by others bands and to tell you the truth I can't hear the difference between them and the CD releases.

[vgonis]

I know exactly what you mean Dan. I have the BiA album in 5-6 formats (CD, SACD, DVD, Vinyl, XRCD and I think I also have it on a cassette) and some of the editions I have multiple times (vinyl from many countries around the globe, CDs new and old). I guess you have to heva a very expensive hi-end system and ears to match to listen to the differences, although from format to format and country  there are some.   

[dmg]

In September 2007 the Audio Engineering Society published the results of a year-long trial, in which a range of subjects including professional recording engineers were asked to discern the difference between SACD and compact disc audio (44.1 kHz/16 bit) under double blind test conditions. Out of 554 trials, there were 276 correct answers, a 49.8 % success rate corresponding almost exactly to the 50 % that would have been expected by chance guessing alone.

    In this order...
Now that is what I call a good marketing plan. Selling the same product over and over again. And I am one of the fools...

We are fools to buy forms of our Brothers In Arms.

[ds1984]

Ok, OMR (Original Master Recording) is a marketing thing.

1) the real meaning is that this recording is the same as the original one, they are not re-recording or cover version.
But that doesn't tell what generation tape has been used (it was especially thruth during the vynil years) and dot not certificate they had access to the master tape recording itself.

2) MOFI (Mobile Fidelity) is not remixing, they use already mixed tape and do remastering only. That said 2 differents mastering will give differents audible results as mastering is making a personnal (subjective) choice.

3) BIA being one of the first digital only recording you can't hope to great improvement. I have read that part of some process (Eq?) that are now done as post treatment where then done live recording and thus a already part of the available digital master.

4) personal opinion but this 85 all digital sound sucks on many tracks (and MK feel the same and has been back to recording analog). The analog safety that was done then is reputed to sound even worse. OES on that matter is way better and should be now used as the standard in digital sound recording. Being already perfect no need to remix/remastering, just producing a multi channel version.