Again, if you get it for a good price, take the plunge.Īgain, the better your player and ancillary equipment, the better the sound. I would certainly not pay the outrageous prices this OOP album is commanding on Amazon and E~bay but if you can find it in a bargain bin and are willing to apply some much~needed tweaks (as outlined above) then go for it.Īs I type this, I am playing my tweaked version of Astronaut on my mid~fi sounds much better than the reviews I have read on this website but don't consider the album Duran Duran's masterpeice. The surrounds were active but subtle and when called for were very active.
I am really NOT a fan of AIC, but it sounded like a good grunge album.some tracks almost had audiophile pretensions. Since I am the resident tweakster on SA~CD net, I took the disc (which I paid peanuts for way back when) and applied Mapleshade Polish and two coats of ultra vivid enhancer and played it on my main system. After reading the wretched reviews on the Alice In Chains I played the disc through my mid~fi system and was pleasantly surprised that it was not all that bad. Multichannel version has an interesting mix but I just can't stand how it sounds: lifeless, opaque, sounds like I'm listening to it through layers of veils.
As someone wrote somewhere, redbook layer sounds far superior than the stereo SACD layer. I bought recently Duran Duran's Astronaut (fortunatelly just for 25 USD, brand new) but I really can't believe how bad this SACD sounds. The reviews in this site about Alice In Chains "Greatest Hits" SACD are really bad (one star).
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