Stealers Wheel Audio CD – January 1, 2017

This review is for the Hybrid-SACD reissue on Intervention Records.First: thank you guys at Intervention Records for bringing this recording back to light in great sound quality! Kevin Gray has given it an awesome remastering, it sounds great, very warm and analogue, yet detailed.But: one may like the cardboard sleeve packaging or not, the inner sleeve used for the SACD is made from a strange soft PVC plastic that is just inappropriate for housing any kind of CD or SACD!My item arrived factory sealed and I very carefully unpacked it, but the disc showed scratches and marks from the plastic sleeve right away.What is the higher sense in packing a new CD/SACD in a way that guarantees it arrives scratched at customers hand??I contacted Intervention for this issue and got an immediate answer - they offered taking it back for a refund, but had little understanding for the actual problem.It's that easy: as a collector I want items purchased brand new to be in brand new condition - w/out any scratches or marks.Why not use inner sleeves like MFSL do for their SACDs?Please Intervention, use better inner sleeves for housing the discs for future releases!

Sacd stealers wheel....nothing better!

Fantastic sound quality provides solid insight into timeless performance. A "period" work transformed.

Terrible packaging!!! The disc sounds good but the disc arrived all scratched from the cheap, tight packaging. I would not recommend this disc to anyone unless the record company corrects their packaging issues.

Unfortunately, not the "remaster" we had hoped. Alexa plays some remastered Gerry Rafferty tracks, just not sure where they came from. Not from this release.

Über die Musik und die Umsetzung als SACD ist bereits viel geschrieben worden, hie sei nur erwähnt dass sich die Anschaffung trotz des relativ hohen Preises lohnt. Es wurden nicht wie bei den vorherigen CD-Versionen Schallplatten als Master verwendet, also keine Knackser sondern durchwegs gute Qualität.Die Verpackung ist wirklich außergewöhnlich. Es ist absolut nichts vorhanden außer einer Papphülle die der LP-Hülle nachempfunden ist und darin eine SACD in einer durchsichtigen Kunststoffhülle. Kein Booklet, Kein CD-Tray. Nur die SACD, sonst nichts.