New Santana, Lowest Dynamic Range Ever

Funny you should mention that album.

I "tried" to listen to it last night on Qobuz.
Truly awful ,gave up after few minutes of skipping through tracks to see if all the same.

Just another victim.......

No surprise and I agree but it’s more than just the compression. Santana just doesn’t have the skill as a guitar player anymore. Very repetitious playing. Not imaginative like in the early days. I have every album and multiple concerts but no more. The albums are overproduced and over compressed. Even the band members don’t have the chops as previous ones. Each album seems worse than the last, to me. 

A criticism that has been leveled at Carlos playing more than once in recent years.


A real shame as they were pure magic when I caught them live back in England in 78 or 79.


But with all that said I personally thought his earlier mini ep release this year , In Search of Mona Lisa was better fare.

Maybe we should start a new thread: New Releases With Good DR.

It would be a very short thread I'm afraid.

It is a hard time to be an audiophile that likes new music. Most of this crap sounds _better_ in the car.