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Paradise Theater will get the audiophile treatment in Japan. Coming on March 26th on SHM-SACD with a catalog number of UIGY-9552. At the same time, Universal Japan is also releasing a Platinum SHM-CD version (UICY-40060) and a regular SHM-CD version (UICY-76104). Considering the old SHM-CD of Paradise Theater was not remastered, this marks the first time PT has been officially remastered anywhere.

The March 26 date looks to be a good one with other albums like Crime of the Century, Brothers in Arms, and others.

EDIT: The source for all is a 2014 DSD transfer of the US analog master tape.

I was wondering if Japan would do a Styx album or two as part of this series, and now my question has been answered. My hope is that they do a few more, one of which I prey is Grand Illusion.

I hope this gets a US release. Also I wish these would have unreleased material on them. Dennis or someone has to have unreleased songs out there.

This is a Japan only release, sorry. You'll have to buy an import if you want it.

And as for PT, no unreleased tracks exist that I'm aware of. GI and Po8? Yes.

I know that DDY and other have stated that they do not have any songs that have not been released. Somehow I find it hard to believe that they don't have things on tape that never made it to a release.

I know that DDY and other have stated that they do not have any songs that have not been released. Somehow I find it hard to believe that they don't have things on tape that never made it to a release.

I know that DDY and other have stated that they do not have any songs that have not been released. Somehow I find it hard to believe that they don't have things on tape that never made it to a release.

[quote="Boomchild"]I know that DDY and other have stated that they do not have any songs that have not been released. Somehow I find it hard to believe that they don't have things on tape that never made it to a release.[/quote]


Thanks Boomchild, I too
Love the scene in the movie Miracle when Herb Brooks is pissed after a tie and keeps them on the ice skating suicides he has his assistant blowing the whistle: again....... Again.......... AGain..........AGAin............... AGAIn.................. AGAIN..............................

i think they probably have some unreleased material but perhaps it was never recorded at a high level.....it may only exist in demo form and that is something they would likely not want released.

StyxCollector wrote:Paradise Theater will get the audiophile treatment in Japan. Coming on March 26th on SHM-SACD with a catalog number of UIGY-9552. At the same time, Universal Japan is also releasing a Platinum SHM-CD version (UICY-40060) and a regular SHM-CD version (UICY-76104). Considering the old SHM-CD of Paradise Theater was not remastered, this marks the first time PT has been officially remastered anywhere.

The March 26 date looks to be a good one with other albums like Crime of the Century, Brothers in Arms, and others.

EDIT: The source for all is a 2014 DSD transfer of the US analog master tape.

I was wondering if Japan would do a Styx album or two as part of this series, and now my question has been answered. My hope is that they do a few more, one of which I prey is Grand Illusion.

Is there a site this can be ordered from? Or pre-ordered?

yogi wrote:

Boomchild wrote:I know that DDY and other have stated that they do not have any songs that have not been released. Somehow I find it hard to believe that they don't have things on tape that never made it to a release.

Thanks Boomchild, I too
Love the scene in the movie Miracle when Herb Brooks is pissed after a tie and keeps them on the ice skating suicides he has his assistant blowing the whistle: again....... Again.......... AGain..........AGAin............... AGAIn.................. AGAIN..............................

If your referring to my reply being posted multiple times, that was not my doing. When I went to post this reply the system produced an error and this was the result. If I could delete the repeats I would.

Baron Von Bielski wrote:Is there a site this can be ordered from? Or pre-ordered?

HMV Japan has them right now. Should show up on CD Japan at some point.

SHM-SACD http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_STYX_000 ... ps_5654720
Platinum SHM-CD http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_STYX_000 ... hm_5654702
SHM-CD http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_STYX_000 ... ps_5654712

StyxCollector wrote:

Baron Von Bielski wrote:Is there a site this can be ordered from? Or pre-ordered?

HMV Japan has them right now. Should show up on CD Japan at some point.

SHM-SACD http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_STYX_000 ... ps_5654720
Platinum SHM-CD http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_STYX_000 ... hm_5654702
SHM-CD http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_STYX_000 ... ps_5654712

Am I correct that the average cost is over $600???

That can't be right. $60 maybe. Maybe the copy and paste Japanese to English currency translation went awry.

Don't know how you got $600.
I see it for 4500 yen, which looks about $45 to me after exchange.
Maybe shipping and handling is $550 ??

Yup, 4500 yen is about $45 these days. Also not sure how you got $600.

Remember that the SHM-SACD is a single layer SACD, so unless you have an SACD player, it's useless to you.

StyxCollector wrote:Yup, 4500 yen is about $45 these days. Also not sure how you got $600.

Remember that the SHM-SACD is a single layer SACD, so unless you have an SACD player, it's useless to you.

I just did a copy and paste in a google search. Anyways, I was only interested in the SHM-CD. That's the format of all my other Styx CD's. Looking forward to it's release. Thanks for the info.