These 2016 SACD pressings from Japan keep on amazing me.



In no way can they compensate for the original vinyl pressings played on a good turntable with a good moving coil cartridge but they are the best we are going to get on the silver disc format.



The original masters were put onto Digital HDD a long time ago now so no matter what version you buy, a vinyl pressing will be of the digital HDD Master and they do show up faults in the original analogue masters.



I will give you an example, ''compression in Freddie Mercury's vocals'' it can be clearly heard when he is at full belt, its a unfortunate side effect of a digital master made from a analogue source, the higher quality player you buy the more you notice the faults and the less enjoyment you get from the recording.



Whilst these SACD versions are top notch, believe me they really drag every nuance from the original recordings, you may find you just can not enjoy them because of the compression used in the digital mastering process which really shows up in these SACDs.



I am glad i bought the all the 2016 pressings, true collectors items, £507.00 for all 15 discs in total but for serious replay i am sticking with my original vinyls from the 1970s upover, warmer sounding and a greater enjoyment factor.