The Bob Dylan Super Audio CD Series

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From http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=17047139:

Jeff Jones, Senior Vice President, Legacy Recordings was at tonight's SACD Press Event to announce that Legacy would be issuing 15 classic Bob Dylan albums on Hybrid SACD disc this fall. Referring to the Bob Dylan albums as "one of the great treasures of American Music", he said that the Dylan catalog would be the start of "an ongoing program to enhance and upgrade the sonic quality and packaging elements of the Dylan catalog."

Like the earlier Rolling Stones Remastered series, these SACD discs will packaged in digipaks and will only be available as Hybrid Stereo SACDs - no Stereo CD version will be issued. However, unlike the Rolling Stones Remastered Series, the Dylan Hybrid SACDs will carry an SACD logo on the package according to Sony officials.

According to Jones, the Bob Dylan SACD series releases this fall will be:

Free Wheelin'
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline
Blood On The Tracks
Desire
Slow Train Coming
Infidels
Oh Mercy
Time Out Of Mind
Love and Theft
Royal Albert Hall
Street Legal

Jones said that “The release of these classic Bob Dylan albums on hybrid SACD will extend the benefits of this exciting format to a much wider audience. Each of these Dylan titles will be reissued in stereo, and they will be carefully remastered and reproduced to the highest quality standards.”