Steely Dan UHQR

I had already moved on from Steely Dan by the time Aja was released but it got radio play and was a demo record back in the day. I always found it dry sounding, and the Cisco cut even more arid. Does the horn on Deacon Blues really wail like it should on this latest version? I have great respect for Bernie, going back to his days at A&M, but I'm not really a buyer of classic rock warhorses these days. I did buy good copies of their entire catalog a decade and a half ago but have gotten out of the habit of yet another "better" copy-- I guess if this record is important to you, you should have it. I kind of stopped back in the day with Countdown and have a children's blocks copy from the old days; did buy the Chad UHQR but I doubt it will get any more play than the old copy. 

Let’s why Digital is leading the way ,records are so limited 

by putting = amount into good digital such as theT+A200 dac , LPS power supplies and quality cables there is so much more flexibility ,tuning, and frequency response 

records 12.5 bits Max vs true 20 bit, and digital keeps progressing. 
and Quobuz Millions of choices to save or pick from your tablet, 

turntables worst certainly can sound great but takes a lot of time and $$ monies .

that’s from someone who had well over a $15k setup.

That’s good news that they say they finally got it right.  It only took 45 years and a much bigger price tag I guess. 

Meanwhile all these high end demos using that record have been deficient all these  years it would seem.  
 

Go figure!   A congressional investigation might be in order for this level of incompetence.  

Man! I am so fed up with this BS about how, back in the day, they had to

"modify the sound of albums in the past so they would play on crappy turntables and how this album, at 45rpm, is designed for the best turntables and cartridges."

This is the same argument people keep making about why the Tone Poets reissues MUST be better than any Van Gelder version. Meanwhile every one of those I hear is easily demolished by a half-way decent RVG.

If this UHQR of Aja comes anywhere close to the better early pressings of this album I'll be absolutely astonished.

So, I just had to look. In my stacks I currently have three copies of this record with the AB 1006 stamper. One is a yellow wax version. One is a really clean (looking) regular wax version and #3 is also very nice in regular wax. Completely forgot about the yellow one. I may have to see how they compare. Been awhile on this one. Not spending much on records these days. definitely not $150.00.