Dead Can Dance on SACD

idealcopy has the set for $159.00

Ordered the whole set from music direct a few weeks ago. Still waiting.

I asked a music shop I do business with about the release date for these. He checked and said it's been pushed back to the 20th of June now.

I took the plunge and pre-ordered the set too. The release date is currently posted as July 22nd.

I ordered a copy of "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" from Hong Kong last week and it got here this afternoon. I've listened to it once and my initial impressions are quite favorable. They definitely have remastered them, and it's not a subtle difference between SACD and Redbook when played back through my Marantz Sa11S1. There is some evidence of the tendency to enhance treble frequencies that I find common in remasters these days, but the recording quality is so fine that I don't find it harsh or grating (as has sometimes been the case.) The soundstage on several tracks is vast, quite amazing. On the strengths of this disc, I'll probably buy the whole set. I noticed Amazon dropped the price to $14.99 a disc recently BTW.