Mobile Fidelity is said to be shipping two more reissue SACD titles by the end of May, though I'm not entirely sure that I want either one of them.
Jeff Beck's
Truth is a great album, and while I'm curious what kind of sound MoFi can retrieve from those master tapes, I already have the Audio Fidelity SACD reissue of that same title mastered by Steve Hoffman just a few years ago, as well as a perfectly good remastered CD reissued in the last decade or so.
I would have preferred MoFi reissue the companion 1969 album
Beck-Ola on SACD instead, and/or the very overlooked 1980
There And Back which had the misfortune of being the studio follow-up to the brilliant and famous
Blow By Blow, and
Wired, really a no-win situation.
The other forthcoming Mobile Fidelity release is The Alan Parsons Project
Eye In The Sky which is another title that I already have in hi-res via a rip of the 2017 Blu-ray Audio disc reissue, as well as a 2006 Arista/Legacy remastered expanded deluxe CD.
This one is also interesting in that the original 1982 album was multitrack analog tape mixed to Sony PCM 1610 3/4" U-Matic 16-bit digital. Even the original LP was culled from that digital source, however it was revealed with the 2017 Blu-ray Audio reissue that a simultaneous 30ips non-Dolby 1/4 analog master was also produced at that time and then never used for anything until that 2017 Blu-ray audio, where the liner notes indicate it was deemed superior sounding to the 16-bit digital master used on all previous releases.
What's odd about this new MoFi SACD reissue is they make absolutely no mention of any of that information, suggesting they did not get their hands on that analog master used in 2017, and if so, this SACD looks like a bad buy, given it would then just be the 1982 16-bit content upsampled to DSD.
I would have preferred MoFi reissue the often overlooked 1978 album
Pyramid instead.