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Reviews: Toto: Toto IV

Reviews: 4

Review by ma June 14, 2003 (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:
Other than the massive hit singles I had never heard the whole album before. Every song on the album
sounds a little different from each other. Unfortuantly so does the sound quality. While some songs sound fine others are poor. My favorite, Africa, is the worst sounding.

Sony has re-released this album and hopefully improved the sound because I can't recomend this version.

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Review by StyleAndEntertainmen August 16, 2008 (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:
Stay away! The songs are great but the sonics are horrible. Of the 100 or so SACDs I own, only Journey's Greatest Hits SACD has worse sound. Very compressed and congested sounding. Too bad too, because this is great music. I'll buy the released multi-channel version and see if Sony can get it together for this rock classic.

I want my money back.

Syln

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Review by gregs1104 January 30, 2010 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:
Love the album, but one of the worst SACD releases ever. It doesn't sound even remotely as good as the MoFi CD release that came out before it, and it barely an upgrade over the regular CD release.

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Review by Bob--- April 6, 2015
Performance:   Sonics:
I haven't heard any multichannel mix so can only comment on 2.0 channel comparisons. Firstly, I will make a generalisation: those very early Sony SACDs from the late 90s/turn of the 2000s - you know, the ones with lots of grey on the covers - tend to sound pretty poor. I have heard several, and in every case the words that spring to mind are: cold and brittle. Some are worse than others, but none that I have heard show off DSD technology very well at all. This one is no exception.

Happily, the next non-hybrid SACD reissue (which also includes a multichannel program, which I hear is not so good) contains an excellent 2.0 stereo remaster. I prefer it to the MoFi, which to me is a little bass-heavy.

So skip this one, and for a 2.0 version try to find the excellent CS 86544.

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