Dire Straits-Brothers In Arms 5.1 coming

This was posted today 4-08 in our stations daily rock news info:

"A 2oth anniversary of Dire Straits' 1985 album, Brothers in Arms, will be re-released in a special surround-sound mix next month. The album has sold over 20-million copies, yielded three Top 20 singles -- "Money for Nothing," "Walk of Life" and "So Far Away" -- and was number-one in 22 countries."

Bring it on!

 

Any word of what format??

 

Next month? This is a bit of a surpirse!
I'm guessing Dualdisc.

 

I almost got the xrcd! I think I'll hold off until I near which format. I hoping SACD, as Mark's latest (Shangra-La) (sp?) is available as a hybrid overseas.

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Hopefully it will be a SACD in Europe!!

 

Good news....I'll take any format I'm not picky...
Now where is Making Movies????

 

This news comes from www.mark-knopfler.co.uk

BROTHERS IN ARMS 20TH ANNIVERSARY: On May 9th, 2005, Mercury Records will be releasing a special SACD (Super Audio 5.1 surround sound CD) version of the Brothers In Arms album to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of its release in 1985. The 13 times platinum selling album has clocked up over 20 million sales to date and achieved #1 status in a staggering 22 countries. It remains one of the biggest selling albums of all time. (07/04/05)

So now you know as much as I do about it... but I am looking forward to it a lot!
Cant wait
Cheers

Steve

 

Fabulous news.

 

Finally, a Rock and Roll SACD I might seriously buy.

 

This is good news indeed.

 

This album on hi-rez is a must-buy for me!

 

Since this was one of the first digital recordings, I wonder whether the sonics can be improved much by doing it in SACD. Would it have to be converted from PCM format? I would not care much for a surround version, but I would certainly like to hear this in hi-rez stereo.

 

Has anyone seen a source to order this -May is fairly close,and cant find it on any of the usual sources.Lots of listings for the DVDA of Sailing to Philadelphia in 10 days,but no Brothers???

 

Gonna hear those toms in surround for Money For nothing. Great stuff.

 

Hope it's a hybrid! That way I can get all my Mark Knopfler hybrid stuff in one take!

Note: Shouldn't HighFidelityReview.com be all over this story as well?!

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They're sleeping until Monday Once again a SHF exclusive!

 

Sounds like good news to me.

 

I'm hoping that 'Love Over Gold' is next!!

 

Excellent!!!

I've almost pulled the trigger on the XRCD a dozen times. Now I'm glad I waited

BTW, the Shangri-La SACD is marvelous. Music is pretty good and the sonics are amazing. Very warm and lush sounding.

 

This is fantastic news! SACD to boot! This is one I would buy at any cost! (Heck, I spent $30 for the Shangra-La SACD!) Hopefully, it will be sold as an SACD here in the US. If not, get those "import" orders ready!

I hope it "sounds" good!

 

That's kind of an odd comment for someone who started a thread and petition to save SACD.

 

Indeed. Recorded on a Sony 24 track digital recorder at Air Studios, Montserrat. That recorder was probably using 44.1 kHz sampling, 16 bit word length, but I can't find a definitive statement on the Web. Anyone?

It will be interesting to hear it against my XRCD.

I hope it's a big seller and encourages Dire Straits to crank out those analogue recordings of their previous (and better sounding) albums on SACD.

 

Amazon.uk is listing an "import" which is a CD + DVD Audio 2 disc set.

 

What I've read it is a 44.1/16 recording.

 

Well, I've read people saying that (for example, see AA) and I'm almost prepared to believe it.