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THE BEST OF THE GUESS WHO Hybrid SACD - DSD

The Guess Who (Artist) Format: Audio CD
3.9 out of 5 stars 32 customer reviews
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  • Audio CD (June 9, 2015)
  • Original Release Date: June 9, 2015
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
  • Label: Audio Fidelity
  • ASIN: B00PRL13XA
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,032 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Hits are here.....to surround you.
By David J. Stash on March 10, 2015
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It's nice to have this surround sound reissue. Great songs somewhat diminished by a less than stellar surround mix. Most of the content is pitched to the back channels for some reason, with the requisite spin around the room surround effects added on. Nonetheless, a nice addition to the surround collection. An essential buy for the Guess Who fans. The other Guess Who and Burton Cummings "quadraphonic" stuff should get release. Edit post comment: the 4.0 sound field, with no isolated center channel, makes for the more widely dispersed audio range. After three listening sessions today, I am pleased with what has been added to the SACD catalog with this release.
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4.0 out of 5 starsSound quality is good....the mix is interesting.
By Amazon Customer on March 11, 2015
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Just to add a bit to the first reviewer's comments:

The sound quality is quite good. Nice high end, the bass just a tad undermixed, but we can adjust that to our liking.

I have my speakers set up for a 5.1 offering. The 4.0 mix is designed for the speakers to be in each corner, so perhaps I should cut a little slack.

An interesting thing happened while I was listening. I moved my head back about 6 inches and suddenly the sound came alive. The sweet spot for the 4.0 mix was in a different spot compared to the 5.1 sound. Once I found it, things were a lot better.

Maybe the best thing about the Guess Who was Burton Cumming's voice. Wish there was a dedicated center channel featuring him, but oh well. Overall a very nice offering for us multi-channel people.
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3.0 out of 5 starsMuffled High End with Panning of Rears Makes for a Less Enjoyable Multichannel SACD
By Jeffrey N. Fritz VINE VOICE on March 13, 2015
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For the most part, the hits are here on "The Best Of The Guess Who (Hybrid SACD 4.0 Multichannel.)" I really like the compilation--so much so that I own the original vinyl (bought back in the day for $3.33) and years later I purchased the stereo CD. (Sadly the CD has gone missing--part of the reason that I purchased this recently released SACD.) But overall "The Best Of The Guess Who (Hybrid SACD 4.0 Multichannel)" disappoints.

I own several SACDs (multichannel and stereo) sourced from the original master tapes that were recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. They offer audio quality that blows me away. Unfortunately, "The Best Of The Guess Who (Hybrid SACD 4.0 Multichannel)" is not one of them. Instead it reveals how poorly recorded some albums were back in the day. It also shows how an SACD mastering engineer can get pan happy. (Sorry, Mr. Hoffman, if you did this, but it is what it is.)

I have a top notch audio system (a relative term, of course) that plays multichannel SACDs quite well. It clearly reveals the deficits of the Guess Who master tapes. For one thing there is practically no high end on this SACD. The first three tracks ("These Eyes," "Laughing," and "Undun") are especially devoid of highs and wind up sounding much like an FM table radio. The subsequent tracks are somewhat better with the high end--although not stellar by any stretch of the imagination.

I attribute this largely to the lower recording quality of the master tapes (multitrack and mixdown) and to the age of the master tapes when Audio Fidelity got ahold of them. There probably wasn't much that Mr. Hoffman could do to improve on this without making matters even worse. His restraint is appreciated.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsResponse to: Muffled High End...makes for a Less Enjoyable Multichannel SACD
By Skip Global on March 26, 2015
I agree with Nikkon Jeff's overall review of this SACD. I especially find that the first few songs definitely suffer from lower sound quality; which improves with the tracks taken from the later albums. On 'These Eyes', the song sounds muddy because they put the bass in all four speakers, so the lower octaves overwhelm the highs. I obtain better balance by rolling off the surrounds at 120 Hz and raising the treble a bit. Also, remember that we are used to hearing this song ad infinitum with a juiced up high end, so any changes in balance take some time to become accustomed to. With 'Laughing' I can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear no matter what I do. I also made some tweeks to the other tracks on side one which helped a bit. I don't like the panning either. I heard that this was one of RCA's first quad releases and there was a tendency to include aural gymnastics such as panning to demonstrate the capability of the medium.

The acid test is to go back and listen to the stereo versions of 'No Time' and 'American Woman' in simulated 7.1 surround. In comparison, the overall sound quality of the quad SACD comes across much better. I find myself listening to the quad SACD at higher volume levels than the CD, which is another indicator of better sound quality and dynamic range. I especially like the opening guitars on 'American Woman' twanging from all four speakers. So I believe that this is the best sounding version of this title that we are going to get, so I have rated it with that in mind.

One last tidbit: I understand that Steve Hoffman does not master the surround sound tracks on any of these Audio Fidelity SACDs. He just does the stereo mastering.
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3.0 out of 5 starsRegular Layer Wins Over SACD.
By DKPete on June 24, 2015
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I don't have a surround sound setup but I do have a bluray player which allows me to listen to the SACD layer. The difference is very interesting between the two layers where the conventional stereo is concerned. With the exception of the overall lack of lower end on These Eyes, the "regular" layer is stellar. crisp, smooth bass, beautiful separation...and, as it's been mentioned, the later the date of the recording, the better the overall sound gets.

However, when I played the SACD stereo layer in my bluray, I was a bit confused. For starters, it continually sounded like the volume was favoring the right channel. At first I wondered if these were mono mixes for the SACD layer but, in time, I heard some actual separation. There is, however, TOO much bass and low end on most of the tracks (particularly the "side one" songs per the original vinyl LP). Also, American Woman is not the LP version on the SACD layer but that's minor.

All said and done, while the SACD layer has it's ups as well as downs, this is the first SACD/hybrid for which I actually prefer the "regular" layer.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

A++++++++++++

Published 3 months ago by D. shaw
3.0 out of 5 stars8 Track sound !

Sounds like a quad 8 track lack of highs and lows ,but still glad to have the SACD .

Published 5 months ago by daniel glowny
5.0 out of 5 starsThis sound great. If you have a CD

I never new of a Quad Lp of this .But I bought it . I don't know if it is SQ,or QS (1970's format wars) ,yes even back then. This sound great . Read more

Published 7 months ago by Alfred Escoto
4.0 out of 5 starsMastered from a Quad LP?

Just a head's up regarding the 4.0 quad mix. For some reason on the quieter songs/sections of songs there is a discernible low end rumble. Read more

Published 7 months ago by The Reverend
5.0 out of 5 starsQuadraphonic rides again!

One of the most sought after quadraphonic albums! The quadraphonic part of this SACD sounds a bit muddy, like the Q8 tape cartridge, but without the tape hiss. Read more

Published 8 months ago by jukeboxexpress
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

It's an improved version of my original CD. Tht's all. Not especially impressed with the soundstage or range.

Published 9 months ago by Dougie
3.0 out of 5 starsGood, but not great surround mix.

This has a good surround mix of all the Guess Who's best tracks (leaving out their first "Shaking All Over), and overall I was pleased with it. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Robert Bauer
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat 4.0 With Great Sound !

I had the quadrophonic 8 track of this some forty three years ago and this new version is every bit as great or greater than I remember it then. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Alloveramp
5.0 out of 5 starsI Think This Is a A Standard Mix!

I bought this sacd simply because i hadn't made a purchase in a while. As an owner of many hundreds of multichannel dvd audio and sacd recordings and one 5.1 and one 7. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Derrick Robinson
5.0 out of 5 starsLove to see Quadrophonic mixes being re-released

I love these old Quadraphonic mixes coming back in SACD. This one is very good as far as use of the 4 speaker sound stage. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Lovin SACD's

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