Music From Big Pink (Omr) [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

The Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Mobile Fidelity Koch
• ASIN: B001TKKAJG
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,171 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tears of Rage

2. To Kingdom Come

3. In a Station

4. Caledonia Mission

5. The Weight

6. We Can Talk

7. Long Black Veil

8. Chest Fever

9. Lonesome Suzie

10. This Wheel's on Fire

11. I Shall Be Released

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SACD is so much better, September 29, 2009

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Will Savun "Will Savun" (Surrey) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Music From Big Pink (Omr) (Audio CD)

Having bought music on vinyl and paid again for the same music on CD, I am now going through a third phase of buying whatever is available in the genres I like on SACD. SACD has the convenience of CD with much superior sound quality - I actually prefer it to LPs.

This SACD of a classic is highly recommended. All else is gaslight?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SACD sounds great to me., February 6, 2011

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Joe Monteiro "Music Enthusiast" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music From Big Pink (Omr) (Audio CD)

Can't seem to figure out why there are so many negative reviews of the sound quality of this Band masterpiece. For a piece of recording from 1968, this mastering job actually sounds terrific! The SACD layer definitely sounds richer but even the CD layer is commendable and up to par with other excellent MOFI releases. Mobile Fidelity has done it again. I'm proud to have Music from Big Pink amongst my other MOFI discs.

11 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AUDIOPHILE QUALITY SOUND, June 21, 2009

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JAMES "james" (birmingham, AL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music From Big Pink (Omr) (Audio CD)

MUSIC FROM BIG PINK was recorded and produced by John Simon , using
Sennheiser and Shure microphones , with an array of Revox 16 track recorders and outboard live mixers in a New York studio .
Technically, the sound recording was revolutionary for a rock band.
Simon recorded and mixed MUSIC FROM BIG PINK like a classical recording ,
More like recording a chamber music group than a rock quintet.

The vinyl version is considered to be the standard for this particular piece ; the 200 gram version is highly recommended .

Original Master Recording comes very close to the vinyl standard .
Playback is the issue here, depending upon the playback system available.
Any decent audiophile quality system will do .
The main requirement is to playback using a SACD player , with multi analog outputs , rather than using a standard stereo CD playback mode.
The hybrid SACD will only deliver the SACD sound via this mode.
The amplifier should be SACD compatible as well.
The OPPO SACD player for example delivers the goods.
Hybrid SACD works using this playback mode.

This recording of MUSIC FROM BIG PINK has excellent depth and soundstage
with precise separation of the vocals and instruments.
It sounds "live" and breathes with presence .
Highly recommended .