Brothers In Arms - 20th Anniversary Edition (Audio CD)

This review is for the 20th anniversary SACD edition and due to Amazon's system may appear INCORRECTLY with ANY version of this album for sale on Amazon.So please read my review carefully as I cover other versions as well including which is the best to buy.I purchased the original CD in 1985 and thankfully still have it.Out of interest I purchased the 2005 remaster to find out how it sounded and I was horrified to discover the amount of compression and clipping on the 2005 remaster.Initial A B listening seemed to indicate the 2005 version is brighter and has more punch.However upon further listening I found the 1985 version was more pleasant and has more musical expression, punch and feel.The 2005 version is strained and harsh, while the 1985 version is a extremely powerful.To get hard evidence I ripped both CDs to wav using EAC and then compared the wave forms in Audacity.This is when I became horrified. The compression and...Read more if (typeof amznJQ != "undefined") { amznJQ.onReady('jQuery', function() { amznJQ.available('popover', function() { var widgetDom = jQuery("#RJ47GHSHOF2PM_imageSection_287E7038-3467-11E6-ADA0-84F312FE341A"); var images = widgetDom.find(".review-image-thumbnail"); for (var c=0;c

This release is a two-sided disc with CD stereo on one side and superb DVD-Audio surround sound on the other. Of course, the real 'meat' on this disc is the surround-sound 5.1 DVD side which is simply stunning! If you have a DVD-Video player hooked-up to surround-sound home-theater system, then you'll get a great sound in Dolby Digital 5.1, or 24bit LPCM stereo.However, very best sound experience possible will come to your ears if you use a "DVD-Audio" player with its six-analog outputs going straight to your receiver's "Multichannel Analog Inputs". (These inputs bypass all the receiver's digital circuitry to keep the high-resolution analog signal intact. By the way, the DVD-Audio surround-sound is presented in 96kHz / 24bit on the disc.Some readers here may know that there is also a SACD version of this album, but be aware that the SACD has been converted from the DVD-Audio's 24bit studio master. So, in short, this DVD-Audio will give you the very best and...Read more

Trust Mark Knopfler not to succumb to platitude, regardless where he is and what's going on around him. There they are sitting on the Caribbean island paradise of Montserrat, and what does the man write? Songs about the pain of separation, love gone wrong and The Blues in general ("So Far Away," "Your Latest Trick," "Why Worry" and "One World"), a part tongue-in-cheek, part grating duet with Sting, who just happened to be available because he was vacationing on Montserrat, on an underdog's gripes about rock stardom ("Money For Nothing"), followed by a more upbeat variation on the "stardom" theme (although even there, we are reminded that "after all the violence and double talk, there's just a song in all the trouble and the strife, you do the Walk Of Life") ... and no less than three songs about war and the abuse of power ("Run Across The River," "The Man's Too Strong" and of course, "Brothers in Arms").Musically, this album is more diversified than Dire Straits' prior studio...Read more