Just an FYI for Dylan fans...

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Wiggy

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/music/21play.html


The Answer, My Friend, Is . . . Mono?
By WILLIAM HOGELAND

Published: November 21, 2004

Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" sounds best in its mono, not its stereo mix, says Clinton Heylin (the Dylanologist actually worth reading). Until now, few could agree or disagree. Through the late 1960's, two formats shared space in stores; certain albums still got lovingly mixed in mono, then quickly remixed to attract stereo adopters. By the 1980's, mono mixes had long since disappeared, and even mono-only albums had been enhanced for stereo. This mishmash became the basis for the first CD reissues. Now, thanks to Sundazed Music (www.sundazed.com), you can own classic mono - new vinyl LP's from original masters. And the mono "Blonde on Blonde" does feel magically warm and personal. This mono experience places in an amusing light the recent Columbia/Legacy remastering of Dylan's entire catalog in Super Audio CD format, which is supposed to provide new degrees - now, more plainly than ever, un-Dylanesque - of hyperclarity.

I have Highway 61 Revisited in the Sundazed mono version, and it does sound very good. However, I would take issue with the writer's characterization of the SACD remasters as "Un-Dylanesque." This seems to me to be a bit of an attempt at revisionist history. Unless he can point to an historical record of Mr. Dylan screaming bloody murder 35 years ago because his "Dylanesque" mono recordings were being mixed in stereo, or that said mixes were being remastered in SACD format in the current era, the statement is unrealistically naive regarding standard business practices that existed in the recording industry at the time.

Recordings that sound good please me.
Recordings that sound better please me more.

i have the revisted on SACD and think its great. love that desolation row! :thmbsp: