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Snow Patrol: Final Straw | Downunderman - August 13, 2025

Yes it will be hard to get hold of now. This was released way back in 2004. It might be worth your while to check it (the SACD version) out on Discogs, where they have copies, ...

Snow Patrol: Final Straw | Jeroensky - August 12, 2025

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I think this is probably the best-sounding version of this classic Crosby album, with one caveat: The tape speed is slow compared to every other version, both analog and ...

Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral | Jeroensky - August 12, 2025

To Trent Reznor: Can you please make your albums 5.1 multichannel, 24bit at at least 48KHz samplerate on SACD or Bluray-Audio (or DVD-A). Please. Only Tidal has some tracks ...

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A further repress of 1,000 was released June 2025 in Japan. If you missed it first time around now is your chance.

Joni Mitchell: Hejira | Downunderman - October 3, 2025

Mastered by Rob LoVerde. And a very nice job he has done too. When you are very familiar with the previous CD versions of an album there is an interesting paradox that ...

Van Halen: Women and Children First | Downunderman - September 29, 2025

Mastered by Neal Harris, assisted by Krieg Wunderlich and they have not tinkered with what was on the master tape to any discernable extent. The production here is very much ...

Mozart The Travelling Whirlwind - Michael Wessel | EugenF - October 27, 2025

Adrian Quanjer, you are right about that: 'in Europe, Sony Austria is now the only SACD pressing plant left'. Just found on Discogs some infos: 'Later Dec 2021 Sony DADC ...

Opera Intermezzi - Karajan

Warner Music (Japan) WPCS-12682

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Intermezzo's & Preludes from
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Verdi: La Traviata
Leoncavallo: Pagliaci
Mascagni: L'amico Fritz
Schmidt: Notre Dame
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
Granados: Goyescas

Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan