Best of the Doors

Audio Fidelity has done an excellent job on its release of this SACD that was originally released in Quad 4.0 vinyl back in the day. It's definitely one of the better Quad's that I had back in the day and this SACD captures it all minus the pops ' n ticks that plague my vinyl copy after all these years. Riders on the Storm - in multichannel - is a real treat to the ears. On this particular SACD - there is a nice separation for the 4 channels. The vocals are font and center while the instruments share rear and front. And all are in good balance. Definitely adds depth to the music - revealing things that I hadn't heard on the vinyl for sure. A great release!

Probably one of the greatest 'best of' CDs by any band

I preordered the Best of The Doors SACD a few weeks back and anxiously awaited its arrival yesterday. Finally got around to listening to it today, spinning it again right now. I have only listened to the Quad 4.0 mix on the SACD layer and it is the best I have ever heard these quad mixes sound. I used to own the Quad version on vinyl, but I don't think I ever got to enjoy the mix with my equipment, now 40 years later, I finally can, and it is very enjoyable. The 4.0 mix is beautifully separated, every instrument is crystal clear, and these tracks sound better than the Perception 5.1 mixes which made very little use of the rear channels. Riders on the Storm is a revelation, I never heard the bongo drums so clearly or even if I ever really heard them as they were buried in the mix previously. The rain sound effects no longer sound like bacon sizzling. The tracks from the debut are only slightly less polished, but that is due to the how they were recorded. Still, the 4.0 mix lets these older tracks breathe and again much better than the previous 5.1 mixes. Highly recommended.

While I can't claim to be a huge Doors fan, their music helped shape a genre that still endures more than 50 years since it was recorded (and our parents said it wouldn't last!) Sex, drugs, and rock and roll were the order of the day. Jim Morrison and The Doors helped sculpt the soundtrack of the era, and this is a disc that features some of their best recordings. Not perfect, though; I think I would have preferred the studio version of "Who Do You Love" over the live version, and I would have liked to have seen "Wishful Sinful" included as well. But you can't have everything, and for what this collection is, it ain't bad. I had this album on the original CD-4 "Quadradisc" LP back in the day, but this SACD far and away sounds much better. The CD-4 system never really could sound great; too many limitations on the system, coupled with its dependence on a very high quality vinyl formulation that was unobtainable in the US, made it essentially a sonic disaster. Removing those limitations, the SACD delivers what the LP couldn't. And since no regular stereo version of this album was released until much later, anyone who bought the LP only to play it in stereo, got less than stellar sound there, too. I haven't listened to the stereo tracks on the SACD, but the 4.0 layer is faithful to what the quad LP wanted to do. So while I'd give it 5 stars on sound quality, the omission of "Wishful Sinful", which also didn't appear on the original and should have, and the live track, downgrade it to 4 stars. This is not the fault of Audio Fidelity, though. I applaud their efforts in their entire SACD endeavor. They did try this before and abandoned it, but I'm glad to see they not only resurrected their efforts, they nailed it! The DSD processing improves both stereo and multichannel sound considerably, and the hybrid nature of this disc makes it playable in stereo on conventional CD players as well. Hesitate not, my friends, to purchase any of the Audio Fidelity releases. You won't regret it.

A lot better than a few other "greatest hits" sets. It's release of full version songs and sound quality that's not too tweaked makes it a collectable. Here's the list 1 Riders On The Storm 7:15 2 Light My Fire 7:07 3 Love Me Two Times 3:15 4 Roadhouse Blues (Live Version) 4:34 5 Strange Days 3:08 6 Break On Through (To The Other Side) 2:28 7 Five To One 4:26 8 Moonlight Drive 3:02 9 Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) 3:19 10 Love Her Madly 3:19 11 People Are Strange 2:11 12 Touch Me 3:13 13 Backdoor Man 3:33 14 The Unknown Soldier 3:22 15 L.A. Woman 7:52 16 Hello I Love You 2:15 17 The End 11:44 U.S.A. & Canada Elektra edition

I also heard this on the SQ Quad record format in the 1970's. I must say that they did a very good job on it yet it also holds true to how I remembered it then and then some. In some regards it is better and has a better mix especially on the tracks from the first Doors album that was originally mixed in three track. They seem to spread the sound field to the back more than they did on the Ultimate Doors SACD box or the Rhino DVD Audio box. I would most definately highly recommend this to anyone that likes the Doors in the Quad 4.0 mix. I do have dedicated sub woofers for each of the four channels so I do get plenty of bottom without the .1 channel.

Très bien, je le recommande aux amateurs des Doors, bonne compilation.

ドアーズは色々なベスト盤を出しています。しかし、このアルバムは曲順を映画「THE DOORS」を思い起こされる様に作られた風に感じます。２枚組を買うより良いと思います。

Todo bien

A qualidade do áudio deste cd é excelente. Sobre as músicas, não tenho o que falar, pois é uma coletânea então todas as músicas mais famosas do The Doors estão presentes. O encarte possui algumas fotos interessantes e o cd chegou em bom estado.

sehr guter Zustand der CD. Keine Kratzer oder ähnliches.