Dire Straits Brothers In Arms Hybrid Stereo SACD
Numbered, Limited Edition Hybrid SACD Mastered from the Original Master Tapes!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 418/500!
2006 Grammy Award Winner for Best Surround Sound Album!
There are successful albums. There are blockbusters. And there are "Brothers in Arms". One of the world's best-selling albums, catapulting Mark Knopfler and band to the top and winning two Grammy Awards, including Best Mixing. "Brothers in Arms" is the kind of epic album that only a few of them release in a decade. Always a reference work for audiophiles, MFSL released the sonic masterpiece in 2013 as a hybrid SACD. For this purpose, the PCM recording in the analogue mixing console was reworked and finally converted to DSD. "Brothers in Arms" has never sounded as realistic, balanced, dynamic and multi-layered as on this release.
MTV may have contributed to the enormous success of the album, but above all the excellently crafted songs and the unforgettable instrumentation of the musicians involved make it a classic. Mark Knopfler's guitar riffs and Sting's vocals in "Money for Nothing" are and remain unmistakable for every music lover. The hybrid SACD, remastered by Shawn R. Britton, will be released in a limited edition with a sequential serial number and booklet with all lyrics in mini-LP cover.
With a large number of releases, three CD variants, an XRCD and a multi-channel SACD, this album has caused a lot of discussion among audiophile collectors. Compared to the first release from 1985, the MFSL variant has a really minimal increase in compression, which was necessary to be able to work out small details in the vocals even more accurately. However, the sound lover will be pleased with the much richer sound with finer vocal reproduction and a drum kit with full resolution, but without exaggerated sharpness. Fortunately, it doesn't sound like it did at the beginning of the 80s, when digital precision was the measure of all things for the new medium CD.
Propelled by Mark Knopfler's literate songs, gruff vocals, and spidery guitar work, Dire Straits had overcome initial skepticism for their resistance to '70s new wave accents in favor of their rootsy traditionalism. This 1985 album captures the band consolidating a far more epic style than the concise shuffles and ballads that the original scrappy quartet had reeled off, their ambitions fueled by the larger canvas afforded by the compact disc. One of the first albums to exploit the format's longer playing time, Brothers in Arms was initially released in separate versions for CD/cassette and edited LP, and the band became digital poster boys on a world tour sponsored by CD hardware interests.
Critics that had once warmed to the band sniffed at the marketing, but the album remains their best known, noteworthy for the MTV staple "Money for Nothing" and the breezy rock shuffle "Walk of Life," as well as for the wistful "So Far Away," the plot-driven narratives of "Ride Across the River," and the title song of course. The album is an amazing mix of styles and moods, but produced without a fault all the way through. This was the showpiece album for this group of hard working musicians, and proved Mark Knopfler one of the worlds greatest guitarists. And now for the 20th anniversary of the album we get a limited edition SACD version that sounds incredible and reeks of sonic integrity.
"Mark Knopfler started writing "Money for Nothing" when he overheard a New York appliance salesman's anti-rock-star, anti-MTV rant. The song, of course, became a huge MTV hit, and this album shows off Knopfler's incisive songwriting and lush guitar riffs on "Walk of Life" and "So Far Away." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
- Super Audio CD
- SACD Stereo SACD Layer
- This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
- Numbered, Limited Edition
- Mastered From Original Master Tapes
Selections:
1. So Far Away
2. Money for Nothing
3. Walk of Life
4. Your Latest Trick
5. Why Worry
6. Ride Across the River
7. The Man's Too Strong
8. One World
9. Brothers in Arms