The Miracle [SHM-SACD] [Limited Release] [SACD]

Well Aside from the case again being only standard instead of jewel like the CD version,this album is by far the best of the Queen catalogue for quality in audio....It smashes straight into its first track Party,and boy does it do just that,the bass is solid and well defined and the midtones are so leveled nicely and when it's added with the higher tones and frequencies, that are exactly reproduced -(CD versions suffer from not having higher frequencies being faithfully reproduced as the format does not allow the sampling rate to go higher than 44.100hz)...it all gels so very well and creates a never heard before version of the album as a whole. Every song on this album has that perfect balance of sound...Freddies vocals are especially nice on The Miracle and Khashoggi's Ship....Breakthru has always been a favourite of mine and hearing it on this disc, it's an OMG moment. There are so many unheard instruments going on and the Bass guitar is moving. Whilst on Rain Must Fall and My Baby Does me, the original recording had a little white noise present which added atmosphere to these songs, and that has been removed for these remasters and that changes the mood of these songs. For the better I would say, and the sad thing to say about all these new masters is that limiters have been used, which means the volume control needs to go down which limits the speakers output - (volume is best heard at 60% on the volume control/dial)....so the result you hear is the albums being to loud and loss of atmosphere...The best song though on this album is Was It All Worth It, it has that operatic/classical feel to it in both it's scale and weight ....Overall though this version is the best way to hear the album and closest to the studio as anyone will get..