In 2003,
Columbia
/
Legacy
reissued 15 selected titles from
Bob Dylan
's catalog as hybrid SACDs, playable in both regular CD players and Super Audio CD players. Each title was packaged as a digipak, containing the full original artwork. On each of the titles, and on each of the layers, the remastered sound was spectacular, a considerable upgrade from the initial CD pressings. Five of these titles --
Another Side of Bob Dylan
,
Blonde on Blonde
Bringing It All Back Home
Blood on the Tracks
Love and Theft
-- also had 5.1 Surround Sound mixes. Since many
Dylan
fans are fanatical collectors and were likely to purchase all 15,
also released a box set containing all the masters. There is no extra packaging to the set -- just the box itself, a cardboard slipcase containing replicas of studio master tapes -- so collectors that somehow bought the 15 titles without realizing that the box exists aren't really missing out on anything special. However, the set is an excellent, convenient way to pick up all the titles at once, which is what most
fans are likely to do anyway. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine