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Dire Straits  -Love Over Gold (Special Numbered SACD) UDSACD2187
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Dire Straits -Love Over Gold (Special Numbered SACD) UDSACD2187

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Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (Special Numbered SACD) UDSACD2187

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Love Over Gold is all about contrast, tension, and crafty composition. Dire Straits' fourth album finds the band continuing to evolve by welcoming increasingly bold arrangements and exploring moody variations. Parts edgy and sharp, and part seductive and relaxed, the five lengthy songs on Love Over Gold sprawl out like a long, winding road cutting through a pastoral landscape. The addition of a new rhythm guitarist, Hal Lindes, encourages deeper atmospheric interplay while the presence of engineer Neil Dorfsman – his first appearance in what would be a long string of collaborations with Mark Knopfler – ensures stunning sonic properties that now come to life like never before.

On this audiophile disc, everything Knopfler does seemingly turn to gold. Gearheads will hear the unique characteristics afforded by his use of a Mesa Boogie Mark II guitar amplifier (soon again employed on Brothers in Arms) and carefully chosen selection of Schecter Stratocasters, 1937 National steel guitar, and Ovation six- and twelve-string models. Reference-level separation and lifelike imaging place Knopfler and company in your room, while tube-like warmth, spaciousness, and airiness causes the music to breathe anew. This SACD will be in your rotation for months.

It doesn't take long to realize Love Over Gold is like no other Dire Straits album – and a staunch proclamation of independence from a band that continued to take longer creative strides with each successive project. Fearlessly extending over metaphoric hills, valleys, and plains for nearly 14-and-a-half minutes, the opening "Telegraph Road" is a guitar hero's dream and exhilarating showcase for Lindes' give-and-take capabilities. In tandem with keyboardist Alan Clark, Lindes provides the ideal foil for not only Knopfler but the long-time rhythm section of bassist John Illsley and drummer Pick Withers.

tracklist

1 Telegraph Road
2 Private Investigations
3 Industrial Disease
4 Love Over Gold
5 It Never Rains

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Excellent sound quality.
24 April 2024  | 

I decided to buy this SACD as its one of my favourite Dire Straights albums. The SACD layer is phenomenal with speed and clarity. The detail resolved to hearing detail and sounds I had never heard on my original CD version.
And as for the CD layer, I find it resolves much better quality sound quality that the original CD. A must buy not just for the sound quality but for Mark Knopfler's guitar playing.

Using my Marantz SA 7001 SACD/CD Player, Custom Valve pre amp, 2X Musical Fidelity A3.2 Power Amps into my Monitor Audio GX 50s

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Love Over Gold, sacd
03 February 2023  | 

My very first Dire Straits album and imo their best now on sacd. If possible sounding even better than the original vinyl.

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Excelent versión
12 May 2022  | 

I am very happy with this sacd. I expected this album to be very well remastered. it's one of my favorite bands. Tnks

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