Okay this goes back to the 70s but some of you may remember an English band called Nektar. I discovered something tonight that really blew me away.
Over Christmas I was in Best Buy wasting some time in the CD section when I spotted an old Nektar CD with a two inch oval yellow sticker on the front that said Nektar Approved Remasters. I actually had the LP in my collection but it was 36 years old so I thought I might as well pick up the CD version because I was planning on playing it through my McCormack ARM circuit so it would take the 2 channel CD and sort of make it come out as MCH recording.
Well I didn't get around to playing the CD until tonight. I pop it in the Moon Orbiter and it flashed up SACD. I thought that is strange, the disc has the CD DISC logo, there are no other logos and the jewel case has no mention of SACD. Just for giggles I hit menu and it pops up with two tracks in the Multi-Channel Area. Okay, I was pretty sure that this was some kind of glitch but I hit play anyway.
Wow, I was stunned when music started coming out of the front and rear speakers. This CD was playing a discrete Quad mix. So I start digging into the booklet that came with the jewel case and sure enough the original master tapes were in fact done with a quadrophonic mix. They actually used these tapes to do the remaster and somehow it comes out as an SACD 4.0 mix. There is no mention in the booklet of this being a multi-channel remaster, nothing, just a regular old CD.
Anyway, if you ever heard Nektar back in the day, Joureny to the Center of the Eye, Tab in The Ocean, Recycled, or Remember the Future and liked Roye Albrighton who use to jam with Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchel and you are a fan of Nektar and you happen to have a SACD player for MCH, then you gotta find this mis-labeled CD. It cost me 10 bucks at Best Buy but I am pretty sure you can find it other places. It was remastered in 2002 on Eclectic Discs Dream Nebula Recordings.
If you haven't heard Nektar but like a jazz rock fusion, then you will definitely like Nektar and if you are a fan of MCH then all the more reason to get this CD.
Nektar has a website www.nektarmusic.co.uk but I don't see this album on their website.
Anyway, if this is old news to you MCH guys at MLOC then just carry on and I will go back to my bed pan.
Over Christmas I was in Best Buy wasting some time in the CD section when I spotted an old Nektar CD with a two inch oval yellow sticker on the front that said Nektar Approved Remasters. I actually had the LP in my collection but it was 36 years old so I thought I might as well pick up the CD version because I was planning on playing it through my McCormack ARM circuit so it would take the 2 channel CD and sort of make it come out as MCH recording.
Well I didn't get around to playing the CD until tonight. I pop it in the Moon Orbiter and it flashed up SACD. I thought that is strange, the disc has the CD DISC logo, there are no other logos and the jewel case has no mention of SACD. Just for giggles I hit menu and it pops up with two tracks in the Multi-Channel Area. Okay, I was pretty sure that this was some kind of glitch but I hit play anyway.
Wow, I was stunned when music started coming out of the front and rear speakers. This CD was playing a discrete Quad mix. So I start digging into the booklet that came with the jewel case and sure enough the original master tapes were in fact done with a quadrophonic mix. They actually used these tapes to do the remaster and somehow it comes out as an SACD 4.0 mix. There is no mention in the booklet of this being a multi-channel remaster, nothing, just a regular old CD.
Anyway, if you ever heard Nektar back in the day, Joureny to the Center of the Eye, Tab in The Ocean, Recycled, or Remember the Future and liked Roye Albrighton who use to jam with Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchel and you are a fan of Nektar and you happen to have a SACD player for MCH, then you gotta find this mis-labeled CD. It cost me 10 bucks at Best Buy but I am pretty sure you can find it other places. It was remastered in 2002 on Eclectic Discs Dream Nebula Recordings.
If you haven't heard Nektar but like a jazz rock fusion, then you will definitely like Nektar and if you are a fan of MCH then all the more reason to get this CD.
Nektar has a website www.nektarmusic.co.uk but I don't see this album on their website.
Anyway, if this is old news to you MCH guys at MLOC then just carry on and I will go back to my bed pan.